The Very First Juneteenth: June 19, 1865What Really Happened When Texas Slaves Were FreedWilliam Spivey·Added May 17·9 min readWilliam Spivey·Added May 17·9 min read
What Juneteenth Means to Me, a Cuban AmericanThere’s a lot to be said about anti-Blackness in the Cuban American community, but we’re not all like that.Arturo Dominguez·Added Jun 18, 2023·3 min readArturo Dominguez·Added Jun 18, 2023·3 min read
How The Vagrancy Act of 1866 Turned Black Freedom Into a CrimeAfter Juneteenth, laws forced Black Americans to laborDr. Allison Wiltz·Added Jun 12, 2023·7 min readDr. Allison Wiltz·Added Jun 12, 2023·7 min read
The Juneteenth Federal Holiday Only Exists Because Of The George Floyd ProtestsIs It Positive Action Or Distraction?William Spivey·Added Jun 4, 2023·6 min readWilliam Spivey·Added Jun 4, 2023·6 min read
How White People Can Celebrate JuneteenthWhile Black folks are celebrating our Freedom Day, white folks need to be working on reparations.Janice R Littlejohn·Added Jun 13, 2022·8 min readJanice R Littlejohn·Added Jun 13, 2022·8 min read
Biking the Juneteenth Freedom TrailTexas freedmen walked away from plantation owners at the end of slaveryMomentum Blog Team·Added Jun 22, 2021·7 min readMomentum Blog Team·Added Jun 22, 2021·7 min read
Juneteenth: A Photo Exploration In Three CitiesMomentum traveled to Detroit, Durham and Birmingham to document the holiday commemorating the slow end of slavery.Momentum Blog Team·Added Jun 21, 2021·3 min readMomentum Blog Team·Added Jun 21, 2021·3 min read
Juneteenth 2021 in Durham, N.C.: Celebration in Spite of Challenge‘Juneteenth was a reminder that we are free from slavery but not from legalized discrimination’Cornell Watson·Added Jun 21, 2021·3 min readCornell Watson·Added Jun 21, 2021·3 min read
Juneteenth 2021 in Detroit: Relaxation Amid the StruggleClose friends and a cookout commemorate a historic moment in timeValaurian Waller·Added Jun 21, 2021·2 min readValaurian Waller·Added Jun 21, 2021·2 min read
Juneteenth 2021 in Birmingham: True Southern Resilience‘We unabashedly celebrate our Black joy as a form of resistance’Joi West·Added Jun 21, 2021·2 min readJoi West·Added Jun 21, 2021·2 min read
