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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the midweek edition of Legal AF exclusively on the Midest Touch Network. |
0:08.0 | You've got your regular anchors Karen Freeman Ignifalo, close friend and colleague of mine here, me, Michael Popoc, and let's kick it off not just with a list of things that we're going to talk about. |
0:19.0 | And trust me, we've got a lot to talk about. People be thinking well this is slow news week |
0:23.4 | there hasn't been a Trump conviction or a recent Supreme Court decision that impacts |
0:28.4 | any of the things that we normally talk about but we got a lot to talk about but we'd be remiss if we didn't kick it off since we are |
0:34.4 | podcasting you tubing on the day of a federal holiday because of our |
0:38.9 | president president president by recognizing the importance of the holiday that had been celebrated for years and decades in the black community as Juneteenth. |
0:49.6 | Juneteenth is not just something Joe Biden made up in 2021 and made it a federal holiday. |
0:55.2 | It had been for years celebrated as part of the black culture, |
1:00.0 | black experience in America to celebrate, I mean technically it's the day that in Galveston, Texas the federal |
1:08.7 | orders made their way in I think 1857 to announce that the slaves had been freed by Lincoln because you know this is |
1:16.4 | this is how news traveled back then but that it but the holiday has met much more than that. |
1:23.0 | Frederick Douglas has a famous line where he said, |
1:26.4 | what does July 4th or the 4th of July mean to a slave? |
1:31.2 | And that started a national conversation and a conversation in the black community about what is their day to celebrate and I was fortunate enough a couple of months ago to visit for the first time the National Museum on the African American History and Culture |
1:48.1 | and they have up on their website I thought a very good explanation of what's going on here with Juneteenth and I wanted to bring it to your |
1:55.8 | attention and what it means to |
1:59.6 | the African American, the black, and by extension those that appreciate black history and |
2:08.0 | black Americans. |
2:09.4 | And they said on their website today, as in June, sorry in 2021, Juneteenth was established as a |
2:17.1 | federal holiday by President Biden, opening it to symbolic and global |
2:21.6 | interpretation and providing a better understanding of the evolution |
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