Recognize June 19 as a national holiday. Support black-owned businesses today and always. And brush up on your history. Those are some of the salient points made by Usher in a timely essay published in the Washington Post to coincide with Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S.
In it, the R&B artist and actor explores the origins of the Black Lives Matter movement, the horrors of slavery and “the resilience of our people.” Writing under the headline "Why it’s so important that Juneteenth become a national holiday," Usher pulls back the layers with a history lesson and a retelling of the circumstances surrounding June 19, 1865, the date that honors the official end of slavery and the true “date
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