SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, NO. 15. (1865)

Calling all adorers, foreseers, clarifiers, feelers heretofore falsely sired to the soil, falsely felled therein—this is your ladder. Your idea of air…

The Poetry Foundation
📚First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth #BookReview #OniPress #ARCReview #GraphicBiography #MulticulturalInterest

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…

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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!

https://www.villagevoice.com/celebrating-martin-luther-king-day-will-cost-you-at-a-national-park-this-year-but-bam-is-honoring-the-great-orator-for-free/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

#Wildlife group sues 2 remove #Trump photo from 2026 national parks pass. #Democrats objected 2 Trump admin cutting free admission 2 national parks on #federal #holidays honoring #Blackhistory, #MartinLutherKingJr. Day, #Juneteenth. #America #Beautiful #NPS pass 4 2026 unveiled last month by #Interior Dept features side-by-side portraits of #GeorgeWashington #Trump 2 mark 250th anniversary of America’s founding. pass typically has photo of #wildlife natural landscape taken on public lands

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/

National Parks Service Ends Free Entry on MLK Day, Juneteenth – The USA Potato

Bigotry in National Park free entrances holidays reflects arrogance of white supremacy in US Administration.
#nationalparks #juneteenth #mlk
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/9/national_parks
“Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day

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.”

Democracy Now!

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

Trump’s Birthday Becomes Free National Park Day as MLK Day and Juneteenth Are Cut

Visitors will instead get free entry on President Trump’s birthday, which coincides with Flag Day.

The New York Times