Juneteenth 2024 Clickable Links & Resources Read: Who should receive reparations in California for slavery? Answers raise more questions. Taryn Luna for LA Times, published March 2022. Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s — Antoinette Harrell, as told to Justin Fornal for VICE, published February 2018. Black People Were Enslaved in the US Until as Recently as 1963 — Rafi Letzter for Live Science, published February 2018. What is Juneteenth? — National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) answering “What is the significance of Juneteenth to the Black community?”. This article features three experts: two Curators & one Oral History Specialist from NMAAHC — and is part one in a three part series (2, 3), simply one of numerous resources from NMAAHC’s Juneteenth Portal.
Watch + Listen: Alice (2022) — film starring Keke Palmer, inspired by real stories of African Americans enslaved into the 1960s, more than a century after the ‘end’ of slavery as legislated through the Emancipation Proclamation. Modern Day Slavery (2018) — documentary exploring stories from those whose families have been impacted by slavery, including one man who was held as a slave along with his entire family until 1965, featuring Akil Gibbons of VICE in conversation with historian & genealogist Antoinette Harrell.