Juneteenth Is Different Out West

"Juneteenth Is Different Out West."

Tiya considers the impact of recognizing Juneteenth, a historically community-based holiday, as a national holiday. She writes, “Juneteenth festivities have long represented tucked-away spaces, deeply local, somewhat surprising and fitted to the variances of Black life in America”; and reminds us of the risk of “commercialization that threatens to eclipse these local celebrations, in all their wondrous specificity.”

The New York Times. Published June 16, 2023.