Observing Juneteenth, 2020

In honor of Juneteenth, our team compiled some educational resources about what this day means and how it came to be.

If you’re joining us in the deeper discovery of our nation’s full history – seeking to understand Juneteenth more fully – we invite you to read and share these resources, and we encourage the support of black-owned bookstores in the DC area as well.

What is Juneteenth?

• Juneteenth.com
• Vox article
• Why is it important? (The Root video)

Recommended movies/videos:

• 13th on YouTube by Netflix (video)
• The massacre of Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street” (Vox video)
• Rapper Killer Mike: We could avoid 100 more years of racial turmoil by doing the right thing now (WP video)
• Usher’s video in the Washington Post

Recommended book list:

1. Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine
2. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
3. How to Be an Antiracist
4. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
5. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Black-owned independent bookstores:

• Bookstores that ship
• Loyalty Bookstore in Silver Spring
• Mahogany Books in SE