#Juneteenth day

[timmurleyart]

Happy Juneteenth day to all. 🖤❤️💛💚🇺🇸

[smcclintonjr]

My Take: So now many want to talk about Milwaukee's Juneteenth? And a message to the "outsiders" who questioned our Juneteenth celebrations.

As of right now, it’s the first day of Summer. But before I get to that, I want to talk about Juneteenth Day in my home city of Milwaukee. This year, we have celebrated 52 years of the occasion that was announced in 1865. Milwaukee has one of the longest-running celebrations of Juneteenth in the north. Everyone knows this. It’s not a secret that the city has been doing this for so long. If you…

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[readyforevolution]

Juneteenth (19 June), or Emancipation Day, commemorates the day US troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the government had abolished slavery, more than two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on 1 January 1863.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed at least 3.5 million enslaved people in Confederate states (states supporting slavery) during the US Civil War (1861-65). Although Lincoln initially freed enslaved Africans so they could join the US military, the goalpost moved when he decided saving the Union (non-slaveholding states) meant abolishing slavery.

Many enslavers took refuge in Texas with their enslaved people, seeing it as a haven for slavery. As Union states gained the upper hand, many Black people gained freedom, but not those in Texas.

While local Juneteenth celebrations saw a resurgence in the late 20th century, US President Joe Biden made it a federal holiday in 2021.

Unfortunately, freedom did not come with reparations and equality. To this day, descendants of enslaved Africans suffer physical and mental ailments—such as high blood pressure and kidney disease, to name a few—are nine times poorer than their white counterparts, and Black men are four times more likely to be imprisoned than white men.

Could the payment of reparations for US slavery complete the memory of Juneteenth? Let us know in the comments.

[y2kgl]

happy pride and happy juneteenth once again ! if youd like to give reparations to help out a genderfluid black queer that would be cool and appreciated :] still need a bit of help paying for school debt & i thank those who reblogged and commissioned i ♥︎ u; i also encourage other black people to share their payment info in the comments <3

p*yp*l • c*sh*pp • v*nmo

if you aren't able to donate, please b**st ! i thank everyone who has helped me out over the years i cant thank everyone enough <3

[snaccpopstudios]

🎉🌟 Happy Juneteenth, SnaccPop Fam! 🌟🎉

At SnaccPop Studios, we’re not just celebrating freedom, heritage, and resilience today—but, also as a proudly Black-owned studio!

And guess what? Our amazing Guest Artist of the Month for the month of May, SilkyNova, is back with a stunning new piece featuring our beloved Black SP characters celebrating with some delicious red velvet cake. 🎨: SilkyNova

Join us in honoring this important day, and let’s continue to uplift Black voices, stories, and talents! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿❤️🖤💚

[thechanelmuse]

Juneteenth aka Freedom Day.

Juneteenth is a centuries long, Black American commemoration day for the end of American chattel slavery, particularly for the ancestors who learned of their freedom in Galveston, Texas in 1865 — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Although they're no longer in America and we're no longer culturally the same, Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, the descendants of Seminole Indians who escaped America at the tail end of the Gullah Wars (1739-1858), in Nacimiento de Los Negros, Mexico.

Up until 1997, the American flag (sewn by Grace Wisher) was the only flag Black Americans waved during the parade and overall celebration. Since then there are only two other flags that are raised and waved: the official Juneteenth flag (made by Mr. “Boston Ben” Haith) and the Black American Heritage Flag (made by Mr. Melvin Charles & Mr. Gleason T. Jackson).

Red, white, and blue. Red, black, and gold. That's it. This is not a Pan-Africanism takeover day. Keep your colonizing ethnocide to yourself and reserve it for cleansing your shit.

Juneteenth flag

Black American Heritage Flag

SN: If you're Black American and haven't done your genealogy or reached roadblocks in your tree, you can learn about lineage tracing and find some tips in this post. Much success.

[toriagamez]

HAPPY MF JUNETEENTH FROM TORIA & THE GANGIE 💚❤️🖤💛

[nickysfacts]

Happy Juneteenth!🤎

In celebration here are a collection of history facts on African American Women and their part in American history that sadly tends to be overlooked!

🤎💜🤎

[akonoadham]

[z0mbiehiph0p]

dhmis takes place in june exclusively because all the puppets are Gay hope this helps .

[invisiblequeen]

Tell 'Em We Don't Die.

We Multiply.

Happy Juneteenth.

[xskyll]

Page 15, for the second time! Apologies to those that saw the version I posted last night with the typo. My days lately have been busy, so sometimes I feel a bit brain foggy. A couple of people left comments on either here or Twitter and it killed me to delete everything. ;_;

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[odinsblog]

Much love and respect to Barbara Lee and Justin Jones

Happy Juneteenth

[nappy-by-nature]

Happy Juneteenth 2023!

[daughterofdessalines]

THE CAUCASITY TAKES ZERO DAYS OFF.