View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) “Long overdue.” Juneteenth will become a paid holiday for New York City workers starting this year, announced Mayor Eric Adams, who noted that it was “long overdue.”…
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) Pull up tonight to 134th and Frederick Douglass, to bring in #Juneteenth properly via the awesome power of art and community. Starting at 9 PM there will be a…
It’s #Juneteenth y’all. On June 19, 1865, almost 3 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas were informed that slavery was no longer the law of the land. The holiday is celebrated…