President Joe Biden, signed up with by Vice President Kamala Harris, legislators and also visitors, indicators the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Bill on Thursday, June 17, 2021, in the East Room of the White House. Official White House Photo by Carlos Fyfe
The White House revealed on Wednesday (June 7) that President Joe Biden and also very first woman Jill Biden will certainly be organizing a Juneteenth performance on the South Lawn on June 13.
The occasion comes 2 years after Biden authorized a bipartisan regulations developing Juneteenth as a government vacation. Juneteenth, commemorated on June 19 each year, honors completion of enslavement in the United States. “Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come. This is a day of profound — in my view — profound weight and profound power,” Biden said at the time of authorizing the costs. “A day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take — what I’ve long called ‘America’s original sin.’”
The Juneteenth performance occasion is sustained by National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Pernod Ricard United States, STARZ #TakeTheLead Initiative and also The Recording Academy. It function Jennifer Hudson, Audra McDonald, Method Man, Colman Domingo, Ledisi, Patina Miller, Step Afrika! and also much more.
The Juneteenth performance will certainly happen throughout Black Music Month. Also referred to as African-American Music Appreciation Month, Black Music Month was officially acknowledged as a nationwide monthlong observation in 2000. “I call upon public officials, educators, and all the people of the United States to observe this month by honoring Black musicians and raising awareness and appreciation of Black music,” Biden composed in a briefing formally stating June 2023 as Black Music Month.
