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• PEOPLE IN THIS WEALTHY CALIFORNIA TOWN WANTED TO PRETEND THEY WERE SLAVES FOR JUNETEENTH

  June 16, 2021 | ABNER HÄUGE

  A Monterey County nonprofit is calling off an event where people do unpaid labor in a field to somehow commemorate Juneteenth, the newly-recognized Federal Holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves at the end of the Civil War. The aptly–named (or maybe not) Juneteenth Coalition’s event, “Anguish of the Elders” (archive,) was to be held in… Continue reading PEOPLE IN THIS WEALTHY CALIFORNIA TOWN WANTED TO PRETEND THEY WERE SLAVES FOR JUNETEENTH