We couldn't do much to celebrate Juneteenth 2020. We're making up for it now. Here's a list of Juneteenth 2021 events around L.A. (via L.A. Times Lifestyle)
Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn’t well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson says it’s a timely reminder of how much we still need to do as a nation to root out racism.
For instance, Margaret and Brandon Williamson, owners of the new PRSVR store in Burbank, are providing Afro beat dance lessons and a chance to color Brandon’s Kente Noir designs on everything from wall hangings to bucket hats and T-shirts and to listen to speakers explore the issues of the Black diaspora.
“So many Black Americans don’t feel their African roots, but if we can’t have American roots, we’re left wondering who we are,” said Margaret Williamson. “We want to talk about Juneteenth, and how American culture has come together — how we continue to rise up and how we, as Americans, refuse to believe that the majority of us are hate-filled. The majority continue to push a melting pot vision of America.”is using Juneteenth to celebrate 19th century civil rights activist Ellen Garrison Clark, a teacher and the first Black woman to test the nation’s first Civil Rights Act in 1866, who died in Altadena in 1892 and was buried in an unmarked grave.
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