“As we celebrate Juneteenth, we can't overlook the fact that ’anti-woke’ attacks on Black history and Black political power have become one of the biggest threats to our democracy. The consequence of this threat goes all the way up to the supreme court. On June 12th, the Oklahoma Supreme Court didn’t allow the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — Viola Fletcher, Lessie Benningfield Randle, and Hughes Van Ellis, who just died last year — to seek justice and reparations from the emotional, physical and financial losses of the massacre. This denial of our history is yet another effort to prevent our full participation in that democracy. We must use this federal holiday to dedicate ourselves to achieving true multiracial democracy in the United States.”

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Kimberlé Crenshaw
Co-Founder and Executive Director of AAPF