{"id":27021,"date":"2021-06-16T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=27021"},"modified":"2021-06-16T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:23:58","slug":"how-you-can-celebrate-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-you-can-celebrate-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How You Can Celebrate Juneteenth This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juneteenth Flag is displayed at Fenway Park, the home of the Red Sox, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Billie Weiss\/Boston Red Sox\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alas!<\/em> We are outside just in time for Juneteenth<\/a>. Celebrating the liberation of enslaved peoples in Texas via the Emancipation Proclamation, June 19 is an annual holiday \u2014 widely cherished within the Black community \u2014 normally celebrated through picnics, cookouts and block parties as a form of ancestral veneration. After a pandemic that halted last year’s events, a movement galvanized<\/a> by systemic racism, and federal strides<\/a> to formally recognize the holiday nationally, the resurgence in anticipation for this upcoming Juneteenth is brimming across social media.<\/p>\n

The day, also known as Emancipation Day, recounts the day Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston<\/a>, Texas\u00a0 to share the news that the Civil War had ended and in accordance with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, all enslaved peoples were free \u2014 two and a half years<\/em> after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Texans began celebrating the date with community events, such as parades, cookouts, prayer gatherings, historical and cultural readings, and musical performances. Over time, as families native to the state emigrated to other parts of the United States, they carried Juneteenth celebrations with them and the cultural practice became embedded in African American lineage. Later on, it became a state holiday in Texas in 1979. Since then, 47 states have also recognized it, but only in Texas, New York, Virginia, and Washington is it on the way to becoming paid holiday for state employees.<\/p>\n

And of course, we’d be remiss to not round-up some of the events taking place across the nation in honor of June 19. Here’s ways you can observe the holiday, honor the everlasting fight for freedom and stand in solidarity with the experiences of African enslaved people this weekend.<\/p>\n

ATLANTA: JUneteenth Black history parade & music festival<\/h3>\n
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