What Juneteenth means to me as a Black financial services professional

June 22, 2022 by Jay Wilkerson

Now that Juneteenth, also called Freedom Day or Black Independence Day, is a federal holiday, we must celebrate it for what it recognize: the end of slavery in the United States, and not let it be seen as just another day off work.

Although slavery did officially end in the U.S. in 1865, the historical impact of this practice has been deeply embedded in our society. This impact is seen by the Jim Crow and segregation era, redlining and housing discrimination, the prison industrial complex, and countless acts of nonsensical violence committed against Black Americans stemming across generations.

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Originally Posted at InsuranceNewsNet on June 18, 2022 by Jay Wilkerson.