Hollywood is honoring Juneteenth in a range of methods.
After President Joe Biden made June 19– or Juneteenth, as it’s frequently described– a federal vacation in the United States, numerous stars are sharing what the day implies to their households.
For Holly Robinson Peete, who marked the weekend by hosting Holly Rod Foundation’s Design Care 2022 charity drive, Juneteenth has actually been an event in her home for years.
“We were raised on Juneteenth. I knew what Juneteenth was when I was a little girl. I knew about Galveston, Texas,” she specifically informed E!News “My father, who inspired a lot of the HollyRod Foundation, was a Black scholar. He was a historian of Black culture and Black history. So I knew about Galveston so I’m happy to see all these years later, that Juneteenth is being celebrated…I’m glad to see the world catching up.”
Juneteenth celebrates the June 19, 1865 arrival ofGen Gordon Granger and Union soldiers to Galveston, Texas where they revealed to the staying enslaved African-Americans that the Civil War had actually ended and they were complimentary. According to Holly, these turning points in American history must be spoken about.
