The Obamas, Chloe x Halle, Taylor Swift and many more shared posts commemorating Juneteenth (via toofab)
"It is ours to honor the legacy of our ancestors, ours to celebrate and ours to remember where we once were as a people. And it should be a national holiday, observed by all Americans," Usher wrote in an"Recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday would be a small gesture compared with the greater social needs of black people in America," he continued."But it can remind us of our journey toward freedom, and the work America still has to do.
"There's so much that can be said in terms of when slavery ended, and how we were left with nothing but -- just rise above it and continue to make something of ourselves and just the history of greatness and them not giving up."
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