Quotation of the Day: On Juneteenth, Tulsa Pairs Joy With Defiance - The New York Times

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Friday, June 19, 2020

“We’re celebrating the emancipation of slaves, but we’re really celebrating the idea of being black. We love it and we love us.”

JACQUELYN SIMMONS, who has lived in Tulsa, Okla., for 45 years, on the Juneteenth celebration.

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