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July 4th didn't set me free. Juneteenth represents freedom for Black people. #HappyJubileeDay. Join us as we celebrate Juneteenth with community events to uplift each other and fight for the future.
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Juneteenth is a day dedicated to recognizing justice and freedom for African Americans and Black people in America. It was first celebrated in Texas on June 19th, 1866 to commemorate the end of ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
The Juneteenth flag was designed in 1997 by activist Ben Haith (also known as "Boston Ben"). [1] Haith displayed the first version of the Juneteenth flag in June 1997 at Boston's John Eliot Square District. It was described by Patricia Smith of the Boston Globe as, "A banner adorned with sunbursts and flaming candles". [2]
Many use Juneteenth as a way to support the Black community, buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses, celebrate through food and festivals and get immersed in the culture. In honor of th
Juneteenth flag. Haith founded the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation, and he led the holiday's first Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony in Boston's Roxbury Heritage State Park in 2000. [3] [13] Haith designed the Juneteenth flag in 1997, [14] and in 2000 (after the addition of the text June 19, 1865), he copyrighted the design. [15]