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School. they werent able to go vote. you think that makes them feel good? so, the folks on the other side, stop making it about you. and be curious, instead of judgmental. >> right. >> thats all. >> and look. conservatives say theyre all about the principles that reformation is about. dont you want your kids given an avenue to dignity and to see what abolitionists were about? and what it is to fight the good fight for the best of reasons? to celebrate your own brothers and sisters in humanity? i...

People do fall for it, as we know, since there was an insurrection on capitol hill from people who were co-opted by the big lie. and so, now, critical-race theory is the big lie, right? but tonight, there is exciting news about america. okay? lets -- lets -- the good news. and a nation coming to grips with its past and the horrors of slavery, juneteenth is now a national holiday. juneteenth, national independence day, to be exact. forever, going forward. america commemorates june 19th, 1865, as ...

President biden signing into law a bill making juneteenth a national holiday. even a small georgia town where the kkk was founded will be celebrating juneteenth this year. cnns martin savage has the story. >> reporter: 80-year-old gloria brown remembers when hundreds of men in white robes would descend on her town each summer. >> as a little girl they looked like a white ghost. you know, they used to have black ghosts. they looked like a white ghost. >> reporter: crosses would burn on the nearby...

Emancipation day. and today, a national holiday. we are gathered here, in a house built by enslaved people. we are footsteps away from where president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. >> healing the stains of racism is a very slow process, in america. juneteenth marks a day, in 1865. but president lincoln, actually, issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863. americans in parts of the south, held in bondage, for two years after they were freed from enslavement. making june...

Country. with the history of this country, as well, and the teaching of history. >> uh-huh. >> i am just wondering, maybe, that it was -- that it had this vote and all of this support because its easy, in some quarters, to be performative. to do a performative gesture, rather than do the real work. do you understand what im saying? >> oh, yeah. yeah. there may be a little bit of that, as well. but were going to do right by juneteenth. that is to say, to continue to do the things that people who ...

And such hate never stopped her. >> joining us now, weve got professor at harvard university, pulitzer prize winning author, amet gordon reid. her acclaimed book is entitled "on juneteenth." annette, when we had you on before, you told us that you had a little bit of problem people outside of texas celebrating this holiday. so im thinking this morning, in the words of my grandmother, grandma, jewel, this must take the rag off the churn. this has to really be something for, a national holiday. wo...

>> by making juneteenth a federal holiday all americans can feel the power of this day and learn history. great nations dont ignore their most painful moments. great nations dont ignore their most painful moments. they dont ignore those moments in the past. they embrace them. >> while junteenth will now be commemorated nationwide, in some red states it could be illegal to teach what the holiday is about. theyre aiming to dictate how historical and modern racism in america are tall. that includes...

Confederacy. after the civil war, we gave reparation to the south when they killed more than 75,000 american soldiers. tomorrow is memorial day when we memorialize and salute american soldiers. they have no problem with it until you put a black face a -- on reparation. >> thats why i wanted to put that out there, because people do not understand learning the last few years about greenwood and the riot there in tulsa, many of us grew up hearing it from our parents and those of us who had it in sc...

Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the history of Texas, blending research and personal memoir.

Clack: To sanitize 1619 is to deny Americas history May 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently said he did not view 1619 as a significant date in American history. But without 1619, the Constitution is a different document and America a different nation.Stefani Reynolds /Bloomberg “There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpe...