The "grandmother of Juneteenth" spoke to NewsOne exclusively.
Over the past few years, many Black inhabitants of America, native or otherwise have begun to denounce American Independence Day. Many have elected to acknowledge Juneteenth as a more appropriate and accurate occasion for Black Americans to celebrate their freedom in the country.
The Trump Campaign released a statement commemorating Juneteenth by saying in part that "light will always triumph over darkness.”
Entitled "Our Spirit," the new Juneteenth ad is the Biden Campaign's latest celebration and honoring of Black American culture.
This Juneteenth is an opportunity for Congress to help reduce the racial wealth gap by supporting the Heirs' Estate Inheritance Resolution and Succession (HEIRS) Act.
Dr. Errol Henderson, most notably in one of his more recent works, The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized builds on DuBois’s work, as well as that of Alain Locke, makes the argument we most need to know: We were our own liberators.
For those who aren't Civil War history buffs and are unfamiliar with Davis, he was the president of the Confederate States of America who said that Black people are “fitted expressly for servitude.”
Basically, Ramaswamy is a person of color with white supremacist tendencies—which is the only kind of POC the GOP will allow at its table.
Should Black America still celebrate the Fourth of July or Juneteenth only? See how various informed opinions stack up against each other.
Mayor Eric Adams deflected responsibility for recent New York City gun violence and crime by invoking the BLM organization. The career policeman wondered aloud "if Black Lives Matter."
