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What Is Juneteenth?

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🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's officially a Federal Holiday - #Juneteenth is tomorrow! If you don't know what it is and why it's so important, Moe Mitch is gonna fill you in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the virtue.

0:02.7

It is a federal holiday.

0:04.3

It is June 10th to be 100% honest with you.

0:07.4

We're not here.

0:08.6

We already, according this right now, for today, today you're listening to this on Monday.

0:13.9

It's a federal holiday, but we recorded it on Friday.

0:16.9

So obviously I wanted to bring Mo in and Katie and also talk about the day, talk about how

0:22.5

they feel about it, maybe do a little education on it also.

0:25.2

Yeah.

0:26.1

So for those who may not be familiar, June team commemorates June 19th, 1865, when Gordon

0:31.8

Granger arrived in Texas and informed the slaves, the African American slaves that the Civil

0:36.3

War was over and that they were now free, which that news came two months after Robert Lee

0:41.7

surrendered.

0:43.4

And about two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and it

0:47.6

became a federal holiday in 2021 after a lot of protest and the unfortunate passing of

0:54.0

George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Amara Aubrey.

0:56.5

And so it's been a celebration really, mostly in the South where a lot of black people get

1:02.2

together and just kind of reflect and think about what the day, the day kind of means different

1:06.5

things to different people.

1:07.6

For some, you celebrate how far we've come and what we've accomplished.

1:11.3

For others, you reflect on a lot of the things that we feel like we still need to do.

1:14.5

Not just how do you feel about the day, but how do you feel about the day now that it's

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