On The Performative Act of Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

The notoriously obstructionist Senate unanimously approved to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. But there's a whole lot of equity measures they are holding the line on.

A 2019 Juneteeth parade in Philadelphia; Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The U.S. Senate passed a bill yesterday (June 15) to recognize June 19th as a federal holiday commemorating Juneteenth. For decades mostly Black communities across the nation have held celebrations in honor of the day (June 19, 1865) that enslaved Africans in Ga…