Here’s what Juneteenth looks like in 2020:
An American flag stylized with Pan-African colors flies from temporarily-named Black Lives MatterMembers of the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics basketball teams rally at the MLK MemorialStern Ferguson wore an American flag face mask during a Juneteenth celebration in Dallas, Texas. Theholiday has roots in Texas and marks the anniversary of enslaved people in the state finding out they had been freed.
Texans attend a ceremony to mark the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth at historic Ashton Villa, wherethe emancipation of the slaves two years earlier was announced in 1865 from the balcony of the house, according to some versions of the event.People carry an empty casket draped with an American flag to symbolize the destruction of Tulsa'sPeople pray together during a Juneteenth event in Atlanta, Georgia.
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