randa 🐼 · @randapanda
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CandyK · @lovelylovely
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Vivek think commemorating the end of slavery is a bad thing, Yes tell us more Vivek just how racist you are.

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Servelan · @servelan
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Texas Observer Lives! · @TexasObserver
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In this month's issue, the winning in the “What Means (To Me)” contest organized by Cyrus Cassells, 2021-22 poet laureate. texasobserver.org/poem-the-pan

#poem #juneteenth #texas #history #freedom #blackart #poetry #culture

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Texas Observer Lives! · @TexasObserver
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A seed slowly fractures the soil as it ascends
We are descended on the ground before an angel appears
With no trumpets or ember shouting from the ground he whispers
Freedom was the only thing we understood for it was once engraved in our bones ...

: The Pantoum, from the July/August 2023 issue of our magazine, and the winning piece in the “What Means (To Me)” contest organized by Cyrus Cassells, 2021-22 poet laureate. texasobserver.org/poem-the-pan

#poem #juneteenth #texas #poetry #history #blackart

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Nando161 · @nando161
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(6/25/23) Chris Smalls speaking in DC at the rally to take Cuba off the so called State Sponsors of Terror . “Joe keeps asking me to come to the White House, most recently I had an invitation for . I declined. They better hear this now, don’t invite me to the White House until Cuba is off the list!”

#list #biden #juneteenth

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Tombstones that used 'Mr.' and 'Mrs.' restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.

theconversation.com/how-black-

#BlackHistory #history #histodons #juneteenth #blackfriday

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✂️ "What To the Slave is the Fourth of July" read by five young descendants of (2020).

▶️ Clip Plays Within This Post | 6:58 ◀️

via @NPR

youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM

#juneteenth #ushistory #blackhistory #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #frederickdouglass

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Pauline von Hellermann · @pvonhellermannn
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continuing to think of everyone - people, animals, plants - stuck under the in and

‘Heat is deadlier than more fearsome-sounding weather events such as hurricanes, floods and tornadoes—combined. “It’s really not even close with any other extreme” ‘

Heat is and

We hear of one postman; rapper dying of suspected in a performance; but it’s so many more suffering

scientificamerican.com/article

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Pauline von Hellermann · @pvonhellermannn
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@AnnaAnthro
Reading this ⬆️ i was wondering how hot it was in just now - I don’t really have a sense of “normal” temperatures during the or indeed of what kind of or are in place for this already, but it’s made me think more about wider social, cultural impact of - might events like Hajj or in (where rapper may have died of during performance) become untenable?

#mecca #ClimateAdaption #heatactionplans #ClimateChange #juneteenth #Houston #bigpokey #heatstroke #ClimateDiary #hajj

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Texas Observer Lives! · @TexasObserver
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On weekend, Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a new registry that could have improved outcomes for sickle cell disease patients. The bill's sponsor called the move ”petty, bullshit .”’

Our reporting fellow @sarahutch talks to one of the people the legislation could have helped: texasobserver.org/sickle-cell-

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The Conversation U.S. · @TheConversationUS
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Contemporary invocations of often overlook its .

The book "Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration" by Edward T. Cotham, Jr. explores the Civil War origins of .

#juneteenth #military #history #juneteenth2023

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Ralph Ellison offers multiple meanings of Juneteenth in American life in his posthumously published novel “Juneteenth."

For Ellison, represents more than just a celebration of , but also a shared fate of all Americans to create a just society.

#juneteenth #emancipation

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The Conversation U.S. · @TheConversationUS
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William H. Wiggins Jr.‘s “O Freedom! Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations” offers an accessible and well-researched account of the emergence and evolution of .

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The Conversation U.S. · @TheConversationUS
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Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s
“On ” offers a moving history of African American life and culture through the prism of Juneteenth.

The award-winning Harvard historian presents an intimate portrait of her experiences growing up in segregated .

#juneteenth #texas

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The Conversation U.S. · @TheConversationUS
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is a day to reflect on Black history, but it shouldn't be the only day.

6 books worth reading all year round:

These reads about Juneteenth offer fresh perspectives on the history and culture of African Americans on a quest to fully express their freedom ⬇️

theconversation.com/6-books-th"

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