Usher Writes Powerful Op-Ed Urging That Juneteenth Become National Holiday: ‘This Country Must Change’
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hollywoodlife.comAs protesters continue to rally against police brutality and racial inequality in the United States, Usher is joining their ranks and calling for change.
The singer and activist, 41, penned a powerful op-ed for The Washington Post on July 19 — Juneteenth — laying out why the day commemorating the emancipation of slaves should become a national holiday. “Recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday would be a small gesture compared with the greater social needs of black people in America.
But it can remind us of our journey toward freedom, and the work America still has to do,” he wrote. In his essay, Usher digs deep through the history of Juneteenth, telling the story of what happened on June 19, 1865: Union soldiers landed in Galveston,
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