Every 19 June for more than 150 years African Americans across the US have celebrated freedom from slavery. Guardian US reporter Kenya Evelyn explores the significance of Juneteenth, how celebrations have evolved over the years and looks at whether it is time for the holiday to receive federal recognition
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Cool well done thanks friend
What about John Brown and his 2 son's, who got shot dead for freeing slaves, John Brown was hung, he and his boys were white but still came down to help us with only is 2 son's, so big big big shout out to John Brown and his 2 son's r.i.p, how meny white people back then had the balls to do what Mr Brown and his sons did ???
CAN WE GET A MILLION DISLIKE ON THIS VIDEO
Happy Juneteenth Afro -America ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
💚🕊🔥Yes indeed 💚🕊🔥Never forget, always forgiving …. More life Selah!
Lol I'm loving these comments . Shows just how much Equality feels like oppression to alot of folks . CRY ABOUT IT 🤣🤣🤣
First step act?
Attempts at prison reform by addressing Clinton's utterly racist 1994 crime bill?
I wonder who?
….More disingenuous, myopic, regressive claptrap from the guardian. No surprise.
Wish we could all be as anti slavery as Nike, yeah?
Shouldnt they be praising their white liberators?. I mean they are free becsuse of white people
The Black dictatorship has come !
No
I don't support BLM I support All lives matter.
why dont you just send all white people to the north pole…..
0:11 Do they really though?
My girlfriend is a black american living in Orlando FL. Her and most of her friends DO NOT support BLM and they reject the leftist narrative.
So freed by a white man mmmm
I mean, if it gets me out of work for a day…….
All LIVES matter
Because the corporations REALLY care about you, nike cares so much about human rights staff have juneteenth off…lets just pretend to forget about the kids in sweatshops
Research indentured servitude and know that slavery was not just what you were taught in school
Juneteenth is a BS holiday made for the losers of history. Womp womp.
look at all those unemployed protesters, i'm betting 100% your tax will rise, well done you have achieved nothing
How come Thanksgiving is so popular yet I have never heard about this until now?
GET A JOB!
Floyd was big criminal,forget about it!!!!
Floyd20
Why do y’all have a black supremacist flag for the thumbnail? 😐
It’s funny how y’all didn’t care about Juneteenth until Donald Trump wanted to rally on it.
Only reason Democrats are celebrating Juneteenth is because Trump scheduled a rally on the same day… 😂😂
Yes, to celebrate the termination of the last non-white in the USA!
Don't we have enough federal holidays eliminate a few and add this one this is one that's deserved. Federal workers don't work enough days as it is
I am loving how all the negative comments further underscore the fact that we need to continue to shed more light on the black issues in America. This is only the beginning! 😃
Mad times, when we got people like her pandering to corporations and protecting the 1% by false virtues.
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Advertisers and media companies are so hypnotizeing 😴
What about the black cop that was killed by the freaking LOOOTERS???????????????? Where is his justice??????? HOW COME THIS BLACK LIFE DIDN'T MATTER???????? HYPOCRITES
NO! IT SHOULD NOT BE A HOLIDAY!! ITS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE!!
Irony in Nike giving US workers a day off, much?
Do uyghur forced labour get a day off?
The Democrats have got the Black lives matter people like Puppets on a string ….Sad.
I want a Malcom Ten holiday.
Terrible. Period.
Why not call June 19th Granger Day in Honor of the commanding general who brought the news to Texas?
Should be a national holiday, A portion of America's population emancipated should be recognized.
Black people have become a legitimate enemy of western democracies.
Why not make it a federal holiday? Why not make the Race Relations Act of 1976 a national holiday in the UK too- after all purposeful change and reform in action fighting against the cause of this issue is more important than addressing the symptoms like statues. Only through political action- we can then have social change.