This week’s cover, “157 Years of Juneteenth,” by Elizabeth Colomba:
Sunday, June 19th, will mark a hundred and fifty-seven years since the U.S. Army General Gordon Granger announced to the people of Galveston, Texas, that slavery was over. Granger’s announcement came in 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
I live in Harlem, and I find inspiration in a community which is similar in some ways to my Martinican background and my European upbringing. Historical Haarlem, a Dutch settlement, and today’s Harlem, buzzing with energy and Blackness, both infuse my work visually and intellectually. One of the roles of portraiture is to anchor you in history. There’s something glorious about being immortalized via this medium, which explains all the portraits of aristocrats, royal families, or landowners. A portrait was and is an acknowledgment of your importance and of your active participation in building a history, a country, and a past.
I’ve learned that Juneteenth is considered the longest-running African-American holiday. People celebrated by wearing their best clothes and gathering around large meals. These words from the historian Mitch Kachun resonated with me: “Celebrations of the end of slavery should have three goals: to celebrate, to educate, and to agitate.”
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