What is Juneteenth? – Resources
Juneteenth is celebrated each year on June 19 and is an officially recognized QuickFrame holiday. Each year, the QuickFrame team takes the day to honor the end of slavery in the United States and to self-educate on the ongoing fight for racial justice around the world. Over the years, we’ve curated an educational resource hub of books, articles, podcasts, and videos on topics related to Juneteenth.
What Is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day and Jubilee Day—is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, which took place on June 19, 1865.
Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863, not all states freed slaves for another two and a half years. June 19th marks the date on which Texas, the last state to do so, officially freed all enslaved people in the state.
The New York Times published a brief guide that tells the history of the day and provides an overview of why Juneteenth has become even more important this year.
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Juneteenth Resources
Books, Articles, Podcasts, & Videos
Start
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” – Peggy McIntosh, TED Talk
- Why We Need to Stop Saying ‘People of Color’ When we Mean ‘Black People’ – Joshua Adams, Level
- Smiling Online, Fuming Offline: The Plight Of Black Professionals In Corporate America – Ruth Umoh & Brianne Garrett, Forbes
- Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement – Courtney Martin
- The Quintessential Americanness of Juneteenth – Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic
- 13th (Feature Film) – Netflix (If you don’t have Netflix, you can watch it via the first link)
Read
- What is Juneteenth? African American History Blog | The African Americans: *Many Rivers to Cross – Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS
- Understanding Racism & Inequality in America – Washington Post
- Black History Month Library – Library of documents
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America – Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic
- The White Space – Elijah Anderson
- Sustaining Systemic Racism Through Psychological Gaslighting: Denials of Racial Profiling and Justifications of Carding by Police Utilizing Local News Media – Heston Tobias and Ameil Joseph
- George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? – Alia E. Dastagir, USA Today
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo (Author), Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword)
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack – Peggy McIntosh
Watch
- “Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice” – Megan Ming Francis, TED Talk
- “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them” – Vernā Myers, TED Talk
- “How We’re Priming Some Kids for College and others for prison” – Alice Goffman, TED Talk
- You Will Never Understand – Joshua Cooper
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution – Stanley Nelson, PBS Documentary
- Loving (Feature Film) – Netflix + Amazon Prime
- Hidden Figures (Feature Film) – Amazon Prime
- When They See Us – Netflix
- Twilight: Los Angeles (Feature Film) – PBS
Listen
- Code Switch – NPR Podcast
- Justice In America – The Appeal Podcast
- 1619 – New York Times Podcast
- Talking Race With Young Children – NPR
Juneteenth Client Videos We Love
ABC: Juneteenth TV Special
ABC used QuickFrame to create segments for an hour-long TV special in 2020 about Juneteenth. In a year where protests against systemic racism took over the United States, QuickFrame was honored to help celebrate Juneteenth by cataloguing the day’s historical significance through video content.
ABC’s stylistic approach to this project showcases the narrative power and versatility that stock photography can have when it’s paired with expert storytelling and animation.
ABC: What America Owes
After working on educational segments for ABC’s Good Morning America, QuickFrame was tapped to create a series of animated videos for Nightline. The news program used QuickFrame to create 3 educational videos on the U.S.’s history of reparations to marginalized groups, narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
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