Juneteenth is a federal holiday, starting in 2021 when President Biden signed the holiday into federal law. Juneteenth celebrates the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were freed, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth represents freedom, celebration, and also the racist history and present of the US. Juneteenth further shakes the normalized history that people hold …
Appeal to Join Historic Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Saturday, June 18
By Imam Khalid Griggs On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led an historic demonstration in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This extraordinary gathering was the occasion for Dr. King’s legendary “I Have a Dream” speech. Fifty-nine years later, hundreds of thousands of Americans are being called to converge on the nation’s capital on June …
ICNA CSJ Statement on the School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas
On Tuesday, May 24th, we witnessed a tragic event at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. 19 children, and one teacher who walked into a school on a Tuesday morning, won awards for honor roll, grades, and behavior, and celebrated their last week before summer vacation, did not return home to their families that evening. Instead, they were mercilessly massacred at …
