@msnbc: "I was a student at Southern University, a historically Black university, when I learned the truth about Juneteenth and its correlation with our freedom," writes advocacy journalist and former Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Donney Rose. "I may have heard of Juneteenth before then, but I couldn’t have told you that it fell on June 19 or that it celebrated the day after the Civil War when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. I learned the truth because of the Afrocentric brothers and sisters on campus who more or less demanded that their schoolmates 'do the knowledge' about our history." "We all know about Juneteenth now ... So why, just four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, does it feel like Black people are less free?" Rose asks. Click the link in bio to read more.
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Thursday 19 June 2025 14:52:26 GMT
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DatDude2024 :
How can I be a victim today🤔
2025-06-20 01:11:17
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smithjacoby927 :
it's not a holiday. it's NOT A HOLIDAY
2025-06-19 18:11:11
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CJSTvr51316 :
Y’all really pushing the narrative hatred for Trump. Stop being a victim. Why are we supposed to look towards the future, when we constantly bring up the past. We can’t change it, but we can learn from it. Also why didn’t Obama acknowledge Juneteenth during his presidency?
2025-06-21 01:18:25
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seasoldier76 :
We need assimilation not diversity, we need equality not equity, and we need expectations for citizens not forced inclusionism.
2025-06-19 16:05:35
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Truck driver 45 :
The sad part is the democrats. Started, fought to keep slavery, Jim Crowe laws. Keep woman and AA from voting. But yet you think the republicans are your problem.😂😂😂
2025-06-20 03:07:20
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Andrew :
America cares more about July 4th 1776 then they care about Juneteenth, but wanna gaslight us when we say America is still racist by saying it's not
2025-06-20 00:13:15
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Vsten :
You should feel more free seeing that you bought into the Democrat Party whitewashed history. Trump for ending the Democrat Party laws supporting & promoting systemic racism in education & government, but you blame him and not the Democrat Party for it.
2025-06-20 02:06:09
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poteatwilliam17 :
Oh look MSNBC saying Trump is to blame smh 🤦♂️. Juneteenth didn’t make slaves free all it is the day they found out in ONE state. Why not make an Emancipation Proclamation federal holiday?
2025-06-20 00:56:34
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theAustrianGuy10 :
“How can we blame everything on Trump today?” Msnbc is so tigged
2025-06-20 14:55:50
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Grandpa H :
It only happened in Texas on June 19, 1865. Other states have different dates.
2025-06-19 16:10:08
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Travis5955 :
How are black people “less free”. What? Can anyone please elaborate?
2025-06-20 20:09:45
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teresajane47 :
Omg the media loves division. Trump Trump Trump. Guess what diversity is the opposite of unity. Keep focusing on what makes us different and the more divided we become keep making people check a box- rather than focusing on what we have in common. You are exhausting.
2025-06-20 00:53:16
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dieselmunkey :
msnbc lying about everything all the time is nothing new.
2025-06-20 10:33:34
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AmericanMade68 :
Funny but I haven’t heard anything about Trump canceling Juneteenth, I think y’all just like stirring the pot! How about you just enjoy the day off and celebrate how you want and stop complaining about every single solitary thing!
2025-06-20 07:38:20
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rich_uncle_skeleton :
Of course no one was taught about it in school it didn’t become a thing until 2021
2025-06-20 02:15:28
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HyperfixatedonNoahSebastian :
White girl from Texas here. We weren’t taught so i didn’t know until my 20s.
2025-06-19 19:35:14
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Kathy 🩵’s Biggie :
As a white girl from the south of course we didn’t hear about this, or Black Wall St. I feel sure there is so much that has been hidden from us. It’s a crying shame…we should know our country’s history the good, the bad and the ugly. 🖤
2025-06-19 16:35:03
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langee22 :
Celebrate Dec 7th. Juneteenth is not it.
2025-06-20 02:48:14
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Pixie :
Texas was the main one who taught it and celebrated it, but we should teach about how the republicans had to forcibly free slaves because the democrats refused to give up their free labor because "Who would clean their toilets and pick their crops?"
2025-06-20 12:13:57
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Ribeyebeer :
Having a holiday for one group of people is not diversity, they need to release all holidays together. Tet, chinese new years, fall festival, cinco de mayo, national womans day, national mens day ect. We need all of it so i can take 365 days off a year.
2025-06-19 23:13:05
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🍌 :
Protests are powerful, but it’s time for America to take the next step: a nationwide strike. I know it’s tough—we’re all living paycheck to paycheck—but real change won’t come unless we all stand together. That means everyone: grocery workers, gas station clerks, utility staff, sanitation crews, fast food employees. We’re not just cogs in a machine—we’re people with lives, families, and dreams. We matter.
2025-06-19 19:19:34
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Tommyfromtheblock :
Why didn’t Obama make it a holiday???
2025-06-20 22:39:49
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Hotshoein :
It's ALL PEOPLE not just special people. We're not the one dividing the country. Name a White Month, name a a White day? Name a college white only!
2025-06-20 18:11:41
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dillpickle :
Cough cough America is what set black Americans free from Africa who were sold into slavery if anything America should be celebrated for this not reminiscing on how evil America is. We are one people and till we realize that we will fail as a country. Help thy neighbor.
2025-06-20 10:52:17
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GutterTalk :
Ohhhh maaaah gaaaawwwd
2025-06-21 04:24:21
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