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Participants ride a parade float during the 2026 Juneteenth Parade in Houston, June 13, 2026. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

What do we celebrate on Juneteenth?

Jerel Ezell
A display of banned books (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Tennessee tried to whitewash "Roots"

Chauncey DeVega
Odetta (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Dylan through the lens of Black America

Caryn Rose
Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in "Sinners" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Sinners" defies Black history erasure

Rann Miller
Chicken yassa and couscous (Photo by Bea Da Costa)

Bringing African flavors to your table

Michael La Corte
Cocoyam Dumplings (Photo by Bea Da Costa)

Alexander Smalls on art and African food

Michael La Corte
Dr. Henry Louis Gates with a photo of the Arthur family during their group interview. (McGee Media/PBS)

The "Great Migrations" that made us

Melanie McFarland
Oysters on the Half Shell (Anne-Claire Thieulon)

The link between oysters and Black cooks

Hannah Walhout - FoodPrint
Sunny Hostin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sunny Hostin writes from her own story

Alli Joseph
Rhiannon Giddens, American folk-singer and Banjo player in concert at the Mojo Club in Hamburg, Germany. (JazzArchivHamburg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The banjo's Black origins in country

Nardos Haile
Ana Navarro on "The View" (ABC/Lou Rocco)

"The View" hosts clash over slavery

Nardos Haile
Lit candles on a set dining table (Getty Images/i_capturemoments/500px)

A supper club that honors Black history

Michael La Corte
"The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" by Caro Anderson (Photo illustration by Salon/Stephen Nowland/Emory University/Bloomsbury Publishing)

Racist history of the Second Amendment

Dean Obeidallah
Poet Nikki Giovanni who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee (Mireya Acierto/WireImage)

Black poets give a voice to Affrilachia

Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Hartley - The Conversation
Dr. Clarence F. Holmes and Dr. Howard Thurman, 1950 (Dave Mathias/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The Black thinker who saw this coming

Peter Eisenstadt
People march from The National Museum of African American History and Culture to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to mark the Juneteenth holiday June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Museum exhibits pivot to Black history

Ashlie D. Stevens
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963; Justice for Freddie Gray protest on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland (Hulton Archive/Andrew Burton)

Despair, justice and Black History Month

Chauncey DeVega
This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Taraji P. Henson, background left, Octavia Spencer, center, and Janelle Monae, background right, in a scene from "Hidden Figures." (Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox via AP) (AP)

Black history movies that tackle racism

Betsy Bozdech - Common Sense Media
(Library of Congress)

Black history of Appalachian activism

Jessica Wilkerson - 100 Days In Appalachia
Donald Trump and Kanye West (AP/Seth Wenig)

Can you love Kanye and hate Trump?

Chauncey DeVega
(Shutterstock)

What Kwanzaa means

Frank Dobson - The Conversation
Discovery of Nat Turner (Wikimedia)

Do we need a monument to Nat Turner?

Patrick H. Breen
The Shores family, near Westerville, Neb., in 1887. Jerry Shores was one of a number of former slaves to settle in Custer County. (AP/Solomon D. Butcher)

american slavery: facts, myths

Daina Ramey Berry - The Conversation

Poetry Inspires kids in jail

D. Watkins
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