One more for Juneteenth
Louis Jordan, “Juneteenth Jamboree.”
Juneteenth
Still no stamp.
Juneteenth Manzarene
To mark Juneteenth, Dust-to-Digital is offering a free download of the 76-page book that accompanied its 2016 release Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams.
Juneteenth
From the Library of Congress: Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, recordings from 1932, 1933, 1940, 1941, and 1949.
Juneteenth
There’s still no stamp. But there is a flag, designed by Ben Haith.
On Juneteenth
Eugene Robinson, writing in The Washington Post: “Making Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day news of emancipation finally reached enslaved people in Galveston, Tex., a national holiday is a victory. But it is a hollow one at a moment when the political party that won the Civil War and made that freedom a permanent reality is now moving heaven and earth to keep African Americans from voting.”
“Is it still celebrated?” Yes.
On June 19, a passage from Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.