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Then there are also more than a dozen states that are currently trying to make it impossible to teach about systemic bias or topics of race in classrooms and come up today, too, as people say we celebrate but what about the areas where people can't talk about it in schools so that's what i mean when i say this is about as much about the future as the past. yasmin? >> it really is incredible. you picked up on that so well. the fact that i was just talking about the voting restrictions put in place to keep black and brown communities from voting in this country. happening across the country, how...

Comfortable in my skin. i didn't have the confidence i have now. it is very important to me because this is my history. this is what my and zesters wanted me to be and i'm seen in their eyes as their image. >> for the first time this past year the miss juneteenth pageant became a national event. i'm joined by the national juneteenth saniya gay. oh my god, look at you. you look incredible. what a crown. >> thank you. >> that is so amazing. wow. wow. i'm shocked and surprised to see you looking so incredible and i'm so happy that you're able to join us today. an honor. talk to me your reaction t...

Day started on a much more somber note. a statue of george floyd unveiled not far from where i am and people invoking the name to remind people this is not just about something that happened a century ago. listen to a conversation i had with an organizer. >> i'm glad to get juneteenth as a national holiday and a step. this year has been that we are more than laboring. what we are taught in schools was just about the slave trade and about all the things that people went through. this start it is process of what has happened after. >> reporter: it's important to remember that this holiday is now...

>> i'm here. >> yeah. so is at all kind of a conversation going on? i remember being on the streets in brooklyn with the conviction of derek chauvin and i worry now that folks think that now that the progress has been made on this one case that they will stop trying to change things. right? stop trying to move forward. to chip away at systemic racism, to work hard at it. is there at a conversation happening similar out there right now about sort of recognizing juneteenth and thinking that folks will think, okay, we have done our job? now we have recognized juneteenth and so nothing else needs ...