Juneteenth
New Museumsnews
Plans for $70m National Juneteenth Museum in Texas come into full view
The museum will be housed in a 50,000 sq. ft timber structure on Fort Worth's Southside designed by Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group
New Yorknews
Black artists and performers take over Fort Greene Park for Juneteenth Jubilee
The Blacksmiths and the Wide Awakes are hosting the programme of live music, performances and art installations in Brooklyn this weekend
Juneteenthnews
Google Doodle honours Juneteenth with art and words of liberation
The tech giant commissioned an original animation with illustrations by artist Loveis Wise and a poem read by LeVar Burton
Lyle Ashton Harris revisits archival images of black joy and resistance amid lockdown
The Bronx-born artist says isolation has allowed the US a valuable opportunity "to be confronted with trauma so deep that it moves us from theory to action"
Three to seereview
Three projects celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery in the US
From freedom papers on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture to Issac Julien's film about famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass