For Juneteenth, How About a Day Without Insults to Black Folks? (opens in new tab)

For a Juneteenth holiday during a particularly tough year for the rights of Black people, I offered this meditation at New York: Juneteenth, the celebration of the good news in 1865 that the great abomination of slavery had ended, is a contradictory holiday. It’s joyful in that it commemorates the emancipation of millions of Americans... Read more »