06/19/2025
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On this day we join with hundreds of thousands of Black Americans in celebrating freedom. Today marks the 160th anniversary of the day 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Texas were told that they were free. While the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years earlier in 1863, Texas enslavers refused to tell enslaved people of their freedom. It would not be until in 1865 that Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bringing the announcement that slavery had been abolished.
From the beaches of Galveston to the seashore of Gaza: Freedom has come before. And it will come again.
In this moment we recognize that Black and Palestinian liberation are foundational principles and guiding lights for us all. Black and Palestinian struggles are entwined — something that Black scholars and activists have taught for years.
As Ajamu Amiri Dillahun writes in Black Perspectives: “We have the potential to increase Black and Palestinian solidarity in new and profound ways and one way to do that is through examining similarities in our struggles. Black people in the United States and Palestinians are oppressed by the same capitalist, racist, and imperialist system. Therefore, the ways in which we resist oppression will correspond with each other. For the most part, the dominant understanding of similarities in Black and Palestinian struggles has been through the paradigm of militarization. This is important and deserves more attention, but our similarities in struggles go much deeper.”
“Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom.” — Angela Davis, Political Activist, Professor, and Author.
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