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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee's dream of seeing Juneteenth become a federal holiday...

Since derek chauvin was sentenced for that murder. in that span, the country has seen mass protests, statues come down, schools change their policies all to be more equitable and try to remove remnants of the country's racist past. a president prone to racist dog whistles was voted out of office. the new president signed a law making juneteenth a federal holiday. it would seem that the arc of history may be bending to its justice. is it? for the state of race in america, i want to talk to annette gordon reed. she is a professor at harvard and a pulitzer prize-winning historian. her new book is...

Of comission. and we hit this history intentionally. now we have a painful reckoning to do and perhaps if we had done it decades ago we wouldn't be in the place we are today. >> dawn, isn't that what's happening? isn't that what you're doing? this isn't that what annette is doing with "on juneteenth"? aren't we moving in that direction right now? >> i think we are moving in that direction, and i'm very optimistic about that. i think that is long overdue. i do worry, though, about the backlash, subtle and overt, about learning and understanding history. and so, you know, that's -- part of my po...

Think that's a threat to democracy, then you don't understand what democracy is. we have an emergency and we need it to happen now. >> it's a threat to everyone. thank you for doing what you don't often , do breaking your weekend. but this was important and important to lead with you tonight. happy juneteenth and i will see you in the trenches, >> you know you will. thank you for all you do, reverend al. thanks for having me on. back to the breaking news that juneteenth has become a u.s. federal holiday after president biden signed it into law this week. joining me now is janel ross, the sen...

Happy to know that legally they would not be treated as property and that they had were going to have the children kept and there was happiness there. even though they knew it would be a struggle. and it was a struggle. so people like commemoration so it doesn't sound like you just think everything was made ok on that day. but there is a space for recognising blackjoy. and i think we can do that safely. you have written _ i think we can do that safely. you have written so _ i think we can do that safely. you have written so much extensively about this. the author of on juneteenth when you talk...