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Kaitlyn Greenidge

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Brooklyn, New York
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Novelist, essayist & cultural critic. Author of Libertie and We Love You, Charlie Freeman. Exploring history, identity & Black life.
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America Is a Story We Tell Ourselves Original

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By Kaitlyn Greenidge Verified
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8 min read When I was 19, I used to carry a copy of the Declaration of Independence around in my shirt pocket. I’d gotten it at my job—I worked as a park ranger at the Boston African American National Historic Site. One of the first national parks dedicated to Black history, it was established as part of the tide of cultural change brought in by the civil rights movement, a response to relentless lobbying from the formidable local Black activist and congressman Byron Rushing.
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Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation Original

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By Kaitlyn Greenidge Verified
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11 min read Juneteenth is both a young holiday and an old one. Declared a federal holiday in 2021, it originated with formerly enslaved people and their descendants in Texas, to commemorate the date, June 19, 1865, when they finally learned of the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery. Because this holiday was originally regionally specific, the question of how to commemorate the day nationally varies widely.
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27 Ways To Thoughtfully Celebrate Juneteenth

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By Kaitlyn Greenidge Verified, Floyd Cooper, Tonya Bolden
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Juneteenth, short for June 19th, commemorates the day the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. — in Galveston, Texas — received word that the Civil War had ended and they had been liberated by the federal orders in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The year was 1865 — two and a half years after Lincoln's proclamation. In the following years, the anniversary of this event was celebrated and honored in Galveston with prayer and family gatherings.
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