![]() In New York, a hybrid event in Central Park on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, with an emphasis on the local Black’s community’s impact on the genre. “It acknowledges the sacrifices of those early civil rights veterans between World War I and World War II, and of course in the modern society, the protests, the demonstrations, the non-violence, the marches,” Jones said. In fact, he said, it is a time to reflect on the past. The Juneteenth holiday, Jones said, should also be viewed as more than a day when people attend parties and cookouts. “It is the independence of a people that were forced to endure oppression and discrimination based on the color of their skin,” Jones said. ![]() with the same emphasis that July 4 receives as Independence Day. Ryan Jones, the museum’s associate curator, said Juneteenth should be celebrated in the U.S. At the museum, visitors can hear recorded speeches from civil rights leaders including King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers and others. The museum offered free admission Monday to mark the holiday. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum located at the site of the old Lorraine Motel, the former Black-owned hotel where the Rev. The statue and the body were moved in recent years. The Memphis park once held an equestrian statue and the grave of slave trader and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill earlier this year making it a state holiday, as well.Įvents there include a multiday festival including food, music, arts and crafts, and cultural exhibitions in a tree-lined park in the city’s medical district. Other events to mark the holiday included a CNN special where Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to appear, along with with musical guests including Miguel and Charlie Wilson.Īlthough end-of-slavery celebrations are new in many parts of the country, in Memphis, where the slave trade once thrived, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated since long before it became a designated federal holiday in 2021. And Black Americans suffer from significantly worse health outcomes than their white peers across a variety of measures, including rates of maternal mortality, asthma, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease. A full 70% of Black adults queried in a AP-NORC poll said “a lot” needs to be done to achieve equal treatment for African Americans in policing. Most Black Americans agree, according to a recent poll. There’s a lot of work to be done,” he said. Lorn Snow told a reporter as the service was ending. It was important to speak about Juneteenth during Sunday Mass, the Rev. Standing before paintings of a Black Jesus and Mary, Thorne said Juneteenth is a day of celebration, but it also “has to be much more.” And in order to have peace we must work for justice,” John Thorne, executive director of the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance, said to the congregation at Gesu Catholic Church in Detroit. “In order to have justice we must work for peace. On Juneteenth weekend, a Roman Catholic church in Detroit devoted its service to urging parishioners to take a deeper look at the lessons from the holiday. Monday’s federal holiday commemorated the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the bloody Civil War. “Is #Juneteenth the only federal holiday that some states have banned the teaching of its history and significance?” author Michelle Duster asked on Twitter, referring to measures in Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama prohibiting an Advancement Placement African American studies course or the teaching of certain concepts of race and racism. RELATED: The story behind Juneteenth and how it became a federal holiday RELATED: The Deschutes Historical Museum celebrates Juneteenth Have you checked out Central Oregon Daily News on YouTube? Click here to subscribe and share our videos.
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