See the long list of artists joining in to honor the Juneteenth holiday
In the midst of a national reckoning about systemic racism and the continued killing of Black and brown men and women at the hands of police, the country paused to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday . The holiday recalls the end of slavery in the U.S., marking the day when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved people were free; the news came two-and-a-half years after Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.
Though the holiday is 155-years-old and has been celebrated for more than a century by African-Americans, the focus on racial injustice spurred by the protests in every state over the killing of George Floyd has put a spotlight on the celebration, with a number of prominent artists, most notably
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