All across the country you’ve been hearing of large corporations like Nike give their employees the day of June 19th, or Juneteenth, the day off.
It seems like just last year, nobody was really talking about Juneteenth and it went from a day that people may have heard of to a day that everybody and their mama wants to celebrate.
Not to party or indulge in “Juneteenth sales” or celebrate “drink specials” at your local club, but to have a meaningful day of planning, strategy and action to manifest the dreams of our ancestors.
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For more than 150 years they built their wealth and livelihood on an oppressive system where our ancestors were mere pieces of property to them and their families.