Juneteenth Celebration
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. TU will commemorate Juneteenth by hosting, collaborating on, and supporting various opportunities for the community, healing, reflection, support, education, and action for the TU community.
Events
TBD
Juneteenth
Wednesday, June 19 | TU Closed
Juneteenth Resources
Multimedia, Social Media and On-Demand Webinars
Community Engagement Around Baltimore
Readings
- National Civil Rights Museum to Host Event Series for Juneteenth
- After Slavery by Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
- Juneteenth: The 155-year-old holiday’s history explained
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Explains “What is Juneteenth?”
- What is Juneteenth? SUSLA history professor talks Black history and the trauma of racism
- Children’s books to celebrate Juneteenth
- Juneteenth by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; Drew Nelson; Mark Schroder
- Juneteenth by Julie Murray
- Juneteenth by Lynn Peppas
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story by Glenda Armand
Music
- Portraits of Langston: VI. Harlem's Summer Night (Classical)
- Juneteenth Jamboree, Gladys "Fatso" Bentley (Jazz/Swing)
- I Can't Breathe, Tje Austin (2020, Contemporary)
- Fantasie Nègre No.2 in G Minor by Florence Price, Samantha Ege (Cassical)
- Redemption Song, Bob Marley (Reggae)
- Pride: In the Name of Love, U2 (Rock)
- Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday (Blues/Jazz)
- Ain’t No Stopping Us Now, McFadden & Whitehead (R&B)
- Spiritual Trilogy / Oh Freedom / Come and Go with Me / I'm on My Way, Odetta (Ballad/Blues)
- Someday We’ll All Be Free, Donny Hathaway (Ballad/R&B)
- What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye (R&B)
- Glory, Common & John Legend (Ballad/Gospel/R&B)
- Black Like Me, Mickey Guyton (Ballad/Country)
- Oh, Freedom, The Golden Gospel Singers (Gospel/Spiritual)
- Chan Chan (Compay Segundo), Playing For Change-Song Around The World (Artists from around the Globe)
- Rise Up, Andra Day (Ballad)