The new film “Miss Juneteenth” was released on the 155th anniversary of the first Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the delayed freedom of enslaved Black people in 1865.
This film not only arrived on this anniversary, but at a time during which there’s a worldwide reckoning and realization that, while enslaved Black folks may have been freed in 1865, systemic racism perpetuates grave injustices, and in some cases different forms of enslavement (as in the 13th Amendment within the United States’ Constitution), for Black people across the globe.
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