“Is it still celebrated?” Yes.
On June 19, a passage from Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth.
Colgate Optic White
“I find it impossible to decide what’s more plausible: that the name Colgate Optic White is the work of a snarky creative type who’s read Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man (1952), or that this new toothpaste just happens to share its name with one of that novel’s most important tropes of color and invisibility.”
It's Ralph Ellison's birthday
He was born March 1, 1914; died April 16, 1994. The author of Invisible Man (1952), one of the permanent American novels. Here is Ellison o...