Contemporary invocations of #Juneteenth often overlook its #military #history.

The book "Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration" by Edward T. Cotham, Jr. explores the Civil War origins of #Juneteenth2023.

The POLITICRAT, Pandorafied! https://bit.ly/434Wubn #Juneteenth2023 #Pandora #podcast #Mastodon #BlackMastodon 🎙🟢⚫️🔴

What Juneteenth Looks Like for Prisoners | Portside

>As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it.
https://portside.org/2023-06-19/what-juneteenth-looks-prisoners #BLM #Juneteenth2023

🎙NEW EPISODE (Monday) - THE POLITICRAT daily #podcast Season 4, Episode 119: What Juneteenth Really Means, And The Juxtaposition Of Texas History https://bit.ly/3XfL2rQ #Juneteenth #JuneteenthDay #Juneteenth2023 #Texas #R4Today #BBCBreakfast #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

I'm sorry my friends for taking so long to post this. Today has been a little off for me 💝🤎🖤

#Juneteenth2023 in honor of what should have been done from day one!

but also NEVER should have happened in the first place!

I'm sorry my friends for taking so long to post this. Today has been a little off for me 💝🤎🖤

#Juneteenth2023 in honor of what should have been done from day one!

but also NEVER should have happened in the first place!

#Texas #JuneteenthDay #Juneteenth2023 https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1670849465211551759?s=20

We ended #Juneteenth2023 in celebration and power, with @StepAfrikaHQ at the @strathmore. My nine year old fell in love with step and felt the power of her community. I was privileged to see the second ever live performance of #TheMovement.

white nationalist Josh Hawley:“Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die"..
it was alive for 250 years, though..#JoshHawley..#Juneteenth2023 #GOP..#whitenationalism..#Missouri..

Honor
Remember
Celebrate
Reflect
Advocate
Persist
#Juneteenth2023 #Juneteenth #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #us

Visit Black-owned businesses in the local area this #Juneteenth.

#Juneteenth2023 | @​VisitUtah
https://www.rsl.com/news/juneteenth-local-business-spotlight-series-presented-by-visit-utah

Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts #Juneteenth2023

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/19/four-enduring-myths-about-juneteenth-are-not-based-on-facts-juneteenth2023/

#Adafruit

Juneteenth Celebration with Mingus Big Band #Juneteenth2023

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/19/juneteenth-celebration-with-mingus-big-band-juneteenth2023/

#Adafruit

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Reflects on Juneteenth #Juneteenth2023

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/19/nasa-astronaut-victor-glover-reflects-on-juneteenth-juneteenth2023/

#Adafruit

Six Art-Filled Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth in New York City #Juneteenth2023

https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/06/19/six-art-filled-ways-to-celebrate-juneteenth-in-new-york-city-juneteenth2023/

#Adafruit

Four enduring myths about Juneteenth are not based on facts #Juneteenth2023 https://blog.adafruit.com/?p=551445

By the way: General Order No. 3 isn’t the great slice of bread some make it out to be. Read between the lines of this order and you will see that newly freed Black people were severely restricted. #Juneteenth2023 #JuneteenthDay #Juneteenth #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

Juneteenth Celebration with Mingus Big Band #Juneteenth2023 https://blog.adafruit.com/?p=551676

Happy Juneteenth, #Americans.

Juneteenth is June 19th and commemorates the end of #slavery… which hasn’t quite ended yet everywhere in #America.

Why not learn about this extremely important, and brand new national holiday with a long history that continues today.

#juneteenth #juneteenth2023 #indenturedservitude #humanrights #civilrights #racism #whitesupremacy #uspol #politics #usa

https://parade.com/1219447/alliyahlogan/how-to-say-happy-juneteenth/

#Juneteenth2023
#BlackMastodon

A must read:

"Negros With Guns"
by Robert F. Williams & Martin Luther King Jr. & Truman Nelson

Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.

Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement.

The single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Negroes with Guns is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and freedom.

As prologue, the issues raised by events in Monroe are weighted by Truman Nelson and Martin Luther King Jr. in essays concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement.