Tell your congressional members you support a Congressional Designation of Juneteenth, June 19, as a national day of observance.

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Friend,

This Saturday is Juneteenth, a day that remembers the historic moment the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free.

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas and read aloud “General Order, No. 3” -- informing the last enslaved African Americans living in the most isolated part of the nation of their liberation. Months later, slavery was officially abolished when the 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865.

It’s been well over a century since Black liberation had been codified, yet we must acknowledge with a heavy heart that Black America is still not fully free.

A broken system of policing systematically torments and murders Black people while protecting officers with blood on their hands. Black families should not have to take to the streets to mourn their children lost to state-sanctioned violence. Not one more.

The facts of structural discrimination in student loan borrowing are clear. Building generational wealth in Black families has been explicitly halted by racist policies stemming from slavery through Jim Crow and mass incarceration. Black students and graduates have been forced to take on more loans with relatively less means to pay off their debt, and the vicious cycle continues.

Voter suppression tactics disproportionately disenfranchise Black communities -- gerrymandering, restrictive voter ID laws, voter purges, polling location closures, the list goes on. In spite of all the barriers that prevent Black voters from casting their ballot, it was Black voters in particular who played a crucial role in delivering Democratic victories in both the U.S. Senate and White House races.

If history has shown us anything, it’s that Black America is resilient. Juneteenth is a celebration of the pursuit for a better, more just tomorrow. It's an affirmation that despite the ugliest chapters of our history, America can change. We can change.

Change starts here: Urge Congress to designate Juneteenth as a national day of observance: [link removed]

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Sincerely,

NextGen America

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NextGen America
268 Bush St. #2919
San Francisco CA 94104-3503

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