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News Articles: Series: Juneteenth

Residents in Millinocket, Maine, say they are outraged after an insurance agency displayed a racist sign remarking on the new Juneteenth federal holiday.

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  • National

2 insurance companies end relationship with Maine agency after racist Juneteenth sign

An image of the racist sign was shared online Monday, gaining the attention of thousands across social media.

June 23, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, in Austin, Texas.

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  • Religion

Juneteenth is a jubilant celebration — and a sacred lament

On Sunday, churchgoers will celebrate Juneteenth during their worship services. Members of the clergy reflect on the role of the church and the holiday marking the notification of the end of slavery.

June 19, 2022
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By:
  • Tekella Foster
Amanda Gorman says the title of her 2021 poetry collection "Call Us What We Carry" came from her understanding that "we all can be vessels of both hurt and hope at the same time."

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  • Race

Poet Amanda Gorman celebrates the gift of Blackness for Juneteenth

To mark the holiday, Gorman reads "Fury and Faith," a poem from Call Us What We Carry. She says her collection's title reflects how "we all can be vessels of both hurt and hope at the same time."

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, commemorates the end of slavery on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, in compliance with President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Here, a young woman stands near a piece of art created during the Louisville Juneteenth Festival at the Big Four Lawn on June 19, 2021, in Louisville, Ky.

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  • Arts & Life

Companies are selling Juneteenth branded products. Here's why that's a big problem

Brands and companies are working to remove their Juneteenth items from shelves, as experts say those who are selling Juneteenth-branded products are "tone-deaf."

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Photos: Americans Celebrate Juneteenth After It Becomes A National Holiday

Juneteenth events are happening across the country, honoring the 156th anniversary of what is often considered the end of slavery in the United States.

June 19, 2021
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By:
  • Elena Moore
The Lincoln Center campus, presently adorned in a green carpet of synthetic grass, hosts a Juneteenth experience June 19.

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  • Music

In New York City, A Juneteenth Event Examines The Meaning Of Freedom

Lincoln Center observes Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, with "I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me," an ambulatory experience conceived by Carl Hancock Rux.

June 19, 2021
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
President Joe Biden is joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Congress at the signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on June 17, 2021.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Juneteenth As A National Holiday Is Symbolism Without Progress

There is a growing discontent in the African American community with symbolic gestures that are presented as progress without any accompanying economic or structural change.

June 19, 2021
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By:
  • Robert A. Brown

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  • Books

5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive

Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy and Long Division, recommends five "incisive and innovative" books on social justice for Juneteenth.

June 18, 2021
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By:
  • Audie Cornish
President Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Juneteenth Is Now A Federal Holiday

June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

June 18, 2021
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By:
  • Alana Wise
A signed copy of Emancipation Proclamation.

To Celebrate Juneteenth, Listen To A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation

To mark Juneteenth, NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States — is now a federal holiday.

June 18, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Opal Lee With President Joe Biden

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  • Race

One Woman's Decades-Long Fight To Make Juneteenth A U.S. Holiday

"We can all finally celebrate. The whole country together," says Opal Lee, 94, who has been working for years to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Colette Baptiste-Mombo and her family at Jackson Memorial High School in 1974

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  • Race

An Immigrant Family Navigates Generational Trauma

Colette Baptiste-Mombo and her family moved to an all-white suburb at the height of the civil rights era. She shares how racist attacks changed her life, and how she deals with generational trauma.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Michael Zamora,
  • Anjuli Sastry,
  • and 2 more
A girl paints on a poster celebrating Juneteenth in downtown Jackson, Miss., on June 19, 2020. Congress has voted to make the day a federal holiday.

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  • Politics

House Passes A Bill To Commemorate Juneteenth As A Federal Holiday

The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Lara Downes, with her father in San Francisco, ca. 1975.

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  • Music News

Celebrating Juneteenth And Black Music Month With Classical Classics

As part of an ongoing series, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to pianist Lara Downes about classical recordings of "Lift Every Voice" and "A Change Is Gonna Come," to mark Black Music Month and Juneteenth.

June 16, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Vince Pearson
People observe a moment of silence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth.

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  • National

Companies Making Juneteenth A Paid Holiday Say It's The Right Thing To Do

Companies are responding to a social movement fueled by the killing of George Floyd, a 47-year-old Black man who died on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis while in police custody.

June 16, 2021
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza

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