I overheard two white women on the sidewalk the other day, excitedly making plans to see each other on June 19. “Yay, we have Juneteenth off! So we’re going to—” yadda yadda yadda. When President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021—commemorating the 1865 day Union soldiers arrived […] The post Experience Juneteenth with these celebrations of Black life through space and time in Chicago appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less