Tag: Juneteenth
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Nation & World
A model for nation in family celebrations of Juneteenth
Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed discusses how Texans celebrate our newest national holiday, Juneteenth.
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Nation & World
‘We are going to soldier on’
After a lifetime of struggle against racism and years pushing for the Juneteenth holiday, Opal Lee’s wishes came true this week.
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Nation & World
A reason to celebrate ‘On Juneteenth’
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the rising importance of “Juneteenth” as symbol and holiday.
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Nation & World
Annette Gordon-Reed on Texas history and growing up there in the ’60s and ’70s
Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the history of Texas, blending research and personal memoir.
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Nation & World
House majority whip shares the value of communication
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress, brought a unique perspective to Harvard for Juneteenth.
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Nation & World
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the financial fallout
Experts look at the long-term financial fallout from a 1921 riot that left an affluent Black community, known as Black Wall Street, destroyed by a white mob numbering in the thousands.
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Nation & World
Juneteenth in a time of reckoning
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery across the nation, when the Union Army took official control of Texas on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.