Pressure released in 2026
normalizes Gone with the Wind 1939 which is racist so I rated the former at 1 on IMDb and invite others to do the same.
Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/13/gone-with-the-wind-hollywood-racism
Unfortunately, we won't have enough time to create a face jug from beginning to end during today's #Juneteenth Arts Festival, but participants will be given the chance to play freely with clay while learning about how enslaved Africans held onto their spiritual beliefs through the creation of these ceramic vessels.
If you're interested in learning more about this, look up "face jugs" and "The Wanderer," the next to last slave ship that entered the US in 1858. #BlackHistory #pottery
#History #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #Holiday #WeareAmericans250 #Video
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 6/20/26
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
A SHORT HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH- narrated by Heather Cox Richardson historian
Back to Cincy to HQ on a red eye tonight. I wanted to get there early so I could see the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center a few blocks from my hotel tomorrow. It looks moving.
From @joannechocolat
Selika Lazevski was an #equestrienne in Belle Époque Paris. In 1891, she was the subject of a series of six portraits at the studio of Paul Nadar in Paris.
Little is known of her life, but she was a horsewoman who rode haute école at the Nouveau Cirque (1886-1926) on rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.
On a personal note: today I (also) learned about haute école:
'The first women to perform on horseback in the circus were trick riders & acrobats with tantalizingly short skirts, bare arms, and exposed pantaloons.
In the 1830s, when the sidesaddle was reinvented, some women moved on to the haute école, the striking, disciplined '#equestrian ballet' that had evolved from Xenophon’s 'On Horsemanship' to the power play of early-modern court carousels & cavalry-school drills.
These écuyères de haute école were among the first women to undertake this most masculine and prestigious of equestrian sports as professionals, and they did it à l’amazone (sidesaddle), en amazone (in a riding habit), & as amazones (the savage, romantic warriors of the Bronze Age transformed into brave but genteel sportswomen).
To the dance steps of the passage and the skipping one-tempi canter, the horse & écuyère added perilous stunts: the horse walking on its hind legs as its mistress lay on his back ...; the horse and amazone jumping high hurdles ...; the horse skipping a rope turned by its rider ...' - by Susanna Forrest in The Paris Review
Growing list of those born or died on June 21 in any year
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (21 June 1830 – 24 August 1882) was a
In January 1865, not long after his march had reached the sea, General William Tecumseh Sherman held a remarkable meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Along with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Sherman spoke with a group of 20 Black ministers about slavery, the Civil War, and the world that was to rise from the ashes of both.
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
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