In the LA Times, by Julia Wick
Recognizing the holiday, as my colleague Angel Jennings wrote a few years ago, “remains a longtime tradition for many Black Americans,” but Juneteenth has never been afforded official recognition as a federal holiday. Despite its place in Black culture, the holiday’s history “has been marginalized and still remains largely unknown to the wider public,” as the National Museum of African American History and Culture notes on its website.
That will probably be different this year, as Juneteenth comes amid a national reckoning on racism in America and weeks of protests over the police killings of George Floyd and other Black men and women. A number of big corporations including Nike, Twitter and the NFL have already announced that they will give employees a day off for Juneteenth for the first time this year.
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