The sun is your disciple
Special Field Orders, No. 15. (1865)
Taylor Johnson
#Poetry #TaylorJohnson #SpecialFieldOrders #Juneteenth #1865 #Emancipation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1764312/special-field-orders-no-15-1865
The sun is your disciple
Special Field Orders, No. 15. (1865)
Taylor Johnson
#Poetry #TaylorJohnson #SpecialFieldOrders #Juneteenth #1865 #Emancipation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1764312/special-field-orders-no-15-1865
Opal Lee—known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth—is brought to life in this biographical graphic novel. I learned so much from this book! Review--> #BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #FirstFreedomTheStoryofOpalLeeandJuneteenth #NetGalley #ARCReview #Juneteenth #GraphicBiography #OpalLee #CivilRights

The incredible journey of activist Opal Lee—known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth—is brought to life in this biographical graphic novel that not only explores Opal’s remarkable path, but the histo…
Celebrating #MLKday will cost you at a National Park this year, but Brooklyn Academy of Music is honoring the great orator for free.
#MLKday free admissions of the past are, well, a thing of the past. Ditto #Juneteenth.
But you can join fellow New Yorkers Jeffrey Wright, Zohran Mamdani, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, & Jumaane Williams (reading the text of King’s “The Drum Major Instinct” sermon) in honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at #BAM. For free!
People gathered before a stage, Juneteenth celebrations in Corpus Christi, Texas (1913) by George McCuistion.
Source: SMU Central University Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5ceb838c-ede7-446d-99b3-3477b8e3ea73
#texas #houston #emancipation #wagons #juneteenth #austin #slavery #tents #art #publicdomain
National Parks Service Ends Free Entry on MLK Day, Juneteenth
The change “sends a troubling message about who our national parks are for," one critic said.https://murica.website/2025/12/national-parks-service-ends-free-entry-on-mlk-day-juneteenth/
The Trump administration is facing backlash after ending free admission at national parks on the only two federal holidays honoring Black history — Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day — while adding free entry on President Trump’s birthday, June 14. The Interior Department also announced higher entry fees for non-U.S. residents under what it calls “America-first entry fee policies.” Denigrating Black history “can’t erase the truth,” says Carolyn Finney, who served on the National Parks Advisory Board during the Obama administration. “It’s not going to change how we feel, not just as Black Americans, but Americans in general, about honoring our history.” We also speak with Audrey Peterman, author of Our True Nature: Finding a Zest for Life in the National Park System, who says “the entire history of America, the entire history of every racial and ethnic group in America, is in the national park system.”
U.S. National Parks have occasional fee-free entrance on days that are national holidays.
"The Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from next year's calendar of entrance fee-free days for national parks and added President Trump's birthday to the list."
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g-s1-101090/national-parks-fee-free-calendar-mlk-juneteenth
#NationalParks #holidays #NationalHolidays #racism #politics #MLK #Juneteenth #WhiteSupremacy
Disgusting blatant #racism
#NationalParks Drop Free Entrance on #MLK Day & #Juneteenth
Visitors will instead get free entry on #Trump’s birthday, which coincides with Flag Day.
#WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/travel/trump-birthday-mlk-juneteenth-free-national-park.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share