The Freedom We're Still Fighting For

By Tony Smith, Publisher, Indie Incognito Magazine

Where We Are Now

June isn't just another page on the calendar. It's a reckoning, A mirror, A memory that won't let us look away.

Juneteenth marks the day when the last enslaved Black Americans finally learned they were free. Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation if that does not tell you something about America's relationship with truth, timing, and justice, you're not paying attention.

But here's the thing: Juneteenth isn't just about 1865 It's about now.

Because we are still fighting for freedom. In classrooms, courtrooms, boardrooms, and voting booths. Still fighting to be seen, heard, paid, protected, and remembered. Still fighting to define who we are, on our terms, without permission or apology.

This issue is our answer to that fight

Inside these pages, you'll find stories that honor the past and demand a future Fashion rooted in resistance Music born from survival. Truth told without a filter. From culture to commerce, from community to creativity. This issue is unapologetically Black, fiercely independent, and fully awake

We don't do watered-down here. We don't do neutral. We do bold. We do real. We do Indie.

To our ancestors, we see you.

To our readers: we got you.

To the system: we're not asking, we're building.

Happy Juneteenth. Let's keep it moving.

LOUD TOUD & UNBOUGHT

Tony Smith

Publisher, Indie Incognito page