As the United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black history.
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“Because this is part of that hidden African American history that still hasn’t been completely unpacked,” he said in Monrovia. Tashina Ferguson, a 26-year-old debate coach, was living in New York at the time of Eric Garner’s death. In some places with larger populations of Black Americans, Juneteenth is already part of the program.
“I would always end my presentations that hopefully, someday, this would be a national holiday. And so now it is, and it feels great,” he said. Payne, an organizer, has lived in Taiwan for 11 years and said he also celebrated Juneteenth growing up in Milwaukee, which has one of the oldest celebrations nationwide.
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