Artwork: “Juneteenth”, Synthia Saint James

Attend one of the following in-person or virtual events:

• Embrace Ideas Festival, June 18-June 21, Boston MA
• 2024 Hyde Park-Juneteenth Joy, June 15, Boston MA
• 14th Annual Boston Juneteenth Emancipation Observance, June 19, Boston MA
  Hosted by the Boston Juneteenth Committee and the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
• Juneteenth Freedom Day Concert June 19, Springfield MA
• Juneteenth Jubilee in Springfield, June 15, Springfield MA
• Juneteenth Community Day Celebration, June 15, Washington D.C.
• Juneteenth Celebrations In Boston, varying dates June 1-20, Boston MA

Plan a visit to:

• The Sojourner Truth Memorial in Florence, MA
• The Museum of African American History in Boston, MA

Watch and reflect upon one of the recent DEI program videos:

• Reflecting on the journey of Ida B. Wells-Paula Giddings
• The Half Life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America Today-Dr. Jelani Cobb
• We Are All Trayvon: Fighting Racism in the 21st Century with Sybrina Fulton
• Confronting our Racial Past: A Discussion of Caste and Stamped from the Beginning with Vice Presidents Dorothy Mosby and Kijua Sanders-McMurtry

And, join us in reading:

• On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone by Heather McGhee
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
• The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
• Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
• Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
• The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom by Thulani Davis

For children:

• The Juneteenth Story by Alliah L. Agostini
• All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson
• Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free by Alice Faye Duncan
• Freedom's a-Callin Me by Ntozake Shange
• The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, and Nikkolas Smith
• Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
• Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Jayylen's Juneteenth surprise
• They built me for freedom : the story of Juneteenth and Houston's Emancipation Park