Celebrating Juneteenth in the Carceral State with Ebony Underwood

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Juneteenth is a special holiday for Black people - it commemorates when the last of our enslaved ancestors were freed. And yet, many Black people remain in bondage through a new form of slavery that's just as insidious: mass incarceration. On this special episode of BHY, we sit down with Ebony Underwood, social entrepreneur and founder of We Got Us Now, to discuss the significance of Juneteenth and the ongoing struggle for liberation. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company – hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes Tareq Alani, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, Tasha Taylor, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shonda Buchanan, Briona Lamback, Akua Tay, Leslie Taylor-Grover, and Darren Wallace. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Ivana Tucker, who also edits the podcast. Black History Year’s Executive Producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My people, this is Jay from Push Black with a special bonus episode of Black History Year.
0:14.1	We didn't intend to be back until our season 4 premiere, which is coming this fall, but
0:19.0	as one important holiday approaches, we had to hop back in the booth because we got
0:24.2	to talk about Juneteenth.
0:26.7	Now Juneteenth is a special day for our community.
0:30.4	Some of us might cook out or visit a museum, go to a parade or festival, share stories
0:36.9	and celebration of the day that emancipation reached the last of our enslaved ancestors.
0:43.5	And while there's much to be joyous about on Freedom Day, a happy question still looms.
0:49.6	How do we celebrate our freedom when freedom still isn't in our reach?
0:54.8	Coming up, a conversation with Ebony Underwood, social entrepreneur and founder of We Got
1:00.1	Us Now, which is an organization built by, led by, and about children and young adults
1:06.0	impacted by parental incarceration.
1:09.0	She'll give us a first-hand account of her experiences with the carceral system, how
1:13.1	the next generation of Black youth are being impacted by it, and explore its connection
1:17.6	to Juneteenth.
1:19.2	So first, let's get into the history of Black Independence Day.
1:31.8	June 19th, 1865, Galveston, Texas.
1:38.8	It was a city brimming with Confederate soldiers, many retreating to the idyllic state of Texas,
1:47.1	seemingly untouched by the Union's promise of freedom.
1:52.9	Here in Galveston, the old South lived on.
1:57.0	Black people here still ploughed land and picked cotton for the white masters.
2:01.2	They still had no legal right to sovereignty.
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