2.18: What is Juneteenth?
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Juneteenth is the oldest celebration of the abolition of slavery here in the United States. Every year on June 19th families come together to celebrate the resilience of our ancestors who survived and persevered during one of the darkest times of our nation’s history. We take time to reflect on where we are as a family, a community, and a nation and how we can work together to better live out our country’s values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Listen in to hear the history of Juneteenth and how your family can take part in this powerful celebration.
Make sure to take a photo and use the hashtag #fnbjuneteenth so that we can see how your family is celebrating this powerful holiday!
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Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
First Name Basis Podcast: Season 1, Episode 3: “Talking To Your Children About Slavery”
Juneteenth Printable Cards & Lemonade Recipe
“Free At Last! Stories and Songs of Emancipation” by Doreen Rappaport
“Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking” by Toni Tipton-Martin*
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery (the website where you can transcribe the newspaper ads of formerly enslaved people looking for their family members)
“Hot Links & Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth” by Nicole Taylor, The New York Times
“Black Codes,” History.com
“What is a white saviour complex?” Faima Bakar
Song Credit: “Away” by Geographer and “Beach Disco” by Dougie Wood
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 18. What is Juneteenth? |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation, |
| 0:19.3 | from good intentions to confident action. |
| 0:22.1 | Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt |
| 0:26.3 | comfortable asking. We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race, |
| 0:31.0 | religion, and culture. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw. |
| 0:36.2 | Music Jasmine Bradshaw. |
| 0:53.9 | Hello, First NameBasis, fam. I am so glad you are here. Before we get into the episode, I wanted to share some really exciting |
| 0:56.1 | news with you. If you are not over on our Instagram, you might not have already heard that we |
| 1:01.5 | started a first name basis Patreon community. So for those of you who don't know, |
| 1:08.5 | Patreon is a platform where you can become a member of the |
| 1:12.0 | First Name Basis Patreon community. |
| 1:14.3 | And what that means is that you are contributing monthly to support First Name Basis, support |
| 1:19.2 | our podcast and expanding so that we can grow and reach more families. |
| 1:24.4 | But also, you get a ton of really cool benefits. My favorite one is that it's a space |
| 1:30.4 | where you can connect with other parents who are really committed to doing the deep digging on |
| 1:36.3 | this journey. So everyone who's in the Patreon community is really excited to dive in deeper and |
| 1:42.8 | really understand what it means to be creating a community |
| 1:46.2 | that's inclusive and just and anti-biased and anti-racist. Another benefit of the Patreon community |
| 1:53.9 | is that I will be doing monthly question and answer sessions over on Patreon. So you guys have |
| 2:00.2 | sent me so many really good, deep, tough questions |
| 2:04.4 | that we need to wrestle with together. These questions can't just be answered to my DMs. |
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