Juneteenth Resources

Reports & News Articles 

• Declaring Juneteenth a Holiday for New York State Employees 

Articles

• The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
  
• www.JUNETEENTH.com 

Books (non-fiction)

• New York Public Library’s Black Liberation Reading List
• On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Social Media Accounts to Follow

Twitter

• Juneteenth Book Fest (@JuneteenthBkFst) 

Instagram

• The Juneteenth Foundation (@thejuneteenthfoundation) 
• Junteenth in NYC (@nycjuneteenth)
• Check Your Privilege (@ckyourprivilege)
• Equality Labs (@equalitylabs)
• The Conscious Kid (@theconsciouskid)

Trainings

• Learning for Justice’s Teaching Juneteenth
  

Events and Things to Do in NYC

Bronx

• Hidden Gems Bike Club’s Juneteenth Ride (In-person), June 19, 9:45am
• Juneteenth Family Day at Pelham Bay Park (In-person), June 19, 12pm-5pm
• Coisescape Presents "A Juneteenth Jubilee" (In-person), June 19, 6pm-9:30pm
• The Village of Pelham Council on the Arts Presents Juneteenth in Pelham (In-person), June 19, 1pm-7:30pm

Brooklyn

• Wyckoff House Museum’s Farmhouse Family Day (In-person), June 19, 11am-3pm
• Brooklyn Museum’s Honoring Juneteenth Events (In-person), June 19, 11am, 6-8pm
• 12th Annual Juneteenth NYC Family Festival (Virtual & in-person options), June 18-20
• Brooklyn Public Library’s Juneteenth Megaphones Kids Arts & Crafts (In-person), June 16, 10am-4pm

Manhattan

• Juneteenth 5K Walk/Run and Barbecue (In-person), June 19, 12pm-6pm 
• Juneteenth Freedom Fest NYC  (Virtual & in-person options), June 13-19
• Museum of the City of New York’s “CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH” MCNY PRESENTS FREEDOM SONGS FEATURING KENYATTA EMMANUEL & SHANELLE GABRIEL” (In-person), June 18, 4pm-5:30pm
• Celebrating Juneteenth with the New York Public Library (In-person), June 19, 2pm
• New-York Historical Society 

Queens

• Museum of the Moving Image’s Celebrating Juneteenth Film Series (In-person), June 19
• Juneteenth Festival (In-person), June 19, 10am-6pm 
• The Bowne House Celebrates Juneteenth (In-person), June 19-20

Staten Island

• Juneteenth at the Staten Island Museum (In-person), June 19, 1pm-4pm
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden’s Juneteenth Freedom Festival (In-person), June 19, 11am-4pm
• Juneteenth Celebration at Alice Austen House (In-person), June 19, 1pm-4pm

Events at WCM

• Diversity Town Hall’s Juneteenth: History, Evolution, Legacy (Virtual), June 16, 4pm-5:30pm
• Breaking Bread “How to Be an Anti-racist” Book Discussion (Virtual), June 20, 5pm-6:30pm
• SOS Open Dialogue on Confronting Racism in Academia + Celebration of Juneteenth (Virtual), June 17, 5pm-6pm. Join us for a special SOS Open Dialogue event with Drs. Mary Charlson and Mark Bernard from Weill Cornell Clinical Epidemiology, as they lead us in discussing ways to confront everyday racism in our institutions and strategies for addressing microaggressions and other discriminations.