Episode 53 - Juneteenth

Juneteenth is a holiday to celebrate the end of slavery in the USA and commemorates the announcement of freedom of slaves in Texas on June 19th 1865. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Article on PBS “What is Juneteenth” https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/ What my father and juneteenth taught me about having Expectaitoins (Danielle C Belton) https://www.theroot.com/what-my-father-and-juneteenth-taught-me-about-having-e-1790855737 Juneteenth: Why Celebrate (Racism Review) by Jessie Daniels http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2017/06/19/juneteenth/ When Black Joy Has White Witnessesby Dominique Matti https://medium.com/@DominiqueMatti/when-black-joy-has-white-witnesses-23ba8e5a8e17 Juneteenth: A RedSpot Day on the Texas Calendar in Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore by William H Wiggins Jr https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yurNxrACxjQC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=Juneteenth:+A+RedSpot+Day+on+the+Texas+Calendar&source=bl&ots=EUWbq1M6jU&sig=ACfU3U3LOynOUV_0wwDz2_qUqevPiGIRRA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwioxoa69vLiAhWEYsAKHeAhATIQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Juneteenth%3A%20A%20RedSpot%20Day%20on%20the%20Texas%20Calendar&f=false Juneteenth – It’s always right to celebrate freedom Dr Charles Taylor (speech from 2004) http://drcharlestaylor.com/JuneteenthCelebrateFreedom.pdf https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm https://www.teenvogue.com/story/juneteenth-celebration-meaning-explainer What Is Juneteenth, How Is It Celebrated, and Why Does It Matter? Jameelah Nasheed