How to Use Juneteenth in a Sentence

Juneteenth

noun
  • Kendrick rode his hate train all the way from Juneteenth to the Fourth of July.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 2025-01-03
  • At a surprise Juneteenth concert, Lamar performed the song five times to an arena full of fans who knew every word.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 2025-02-09
  • Changes also include adding Juneteenth as a holiday and aligning leave policies with non-union standards.
    — Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 2025-02-06
  • Texas adopted Juneteenth as a state holiday in 1980, and in recent years, all but three states had as well.
    — Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 2024-05-13
  • On a recent summer day, one storefront featured a poster about a Juneteenth celebration.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But Kendrick’s impact, especially after Juneteenth, had me in tears.
    — Ashley Foster, VIBE.com, 2024-10-10
  • Opal Lee championed Juneteenth holiday:At 95, she's still got work to do.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-10-07
  • During the Juneteenth weekend alone, 11 people were shot, including a 6-year-old boy who was wounded in the back of a car.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 2023-06-28
  • Steven Barter, founder of the clothing line Barriers, usually uses Juneteenth to rest.
    — Essence, 2025-06-24
  • The court was closed on Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth and a half-day was already scheduled for Friday.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2025-06-22
  • Opal Lee, an educator and activist who pushed to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 2024-05-03
  • As a result of the deal, temporary employees will have a lower threshold to meet in order to receive comp days and Juneteenth will be added has a holiday.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 2025-01-28
  • To be sure, there’s still some violence in this film about a group of friends gathering at a cabin for Juneteenth — substantially more than many other entries on this list.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 2024-10-15
  • This photo shows a girl waving from the top of a lowrider during the annual Juneteenth Parade on the east side of Austin, Texas.
    — Meredith Nierman, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Before Juneteenth, a Black neighborhood in Plano was on its way to becoming one of the city's most vibrant communities.
    — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 2025-02-27
  • As of Saturday, Juneteenth is also now recognized as an official state holiday.
    — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA TODAY, 2023-07-02
  • Some are evenings of 10-minute plays, an annual event that honors Juneteenth through theater, and the group debuts a full-length original work annually.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 2025-01-30
  • The event was so well received that the organization held a Juneteenth celebration 12 days later, again with a goal of reclaiming space.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2025-02-06
  • Opal Lee, a 97-year-old teacher and activist who campaigned to make Juneteenth a national holiday, also received a medal.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2024-05-06
  • June In June, vacation maximizers should look to Juneteenth, on the 19th, which falls on a Thursday.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2024-10-15
  • Toward the end of the trading week, which was shortened by the Juneteenth holiday, profit-taking in chipmaker stocks emerged, tempering the earlier gains.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2024-06-22
  • The same year it was made a national holiday, bills proposed adding Juneteenth and the preceding day to the list of times local governments can't enact fireworks ordinances.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 2025-07-04
  • From picking a fan’s wedding song to celebrating Juneteenth by wearing all Black designers, the globe-trotting tour continues to spark viral moments.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 2023-07-28
  • At an event celebrating Juneteenth in 2023, Lee said honesty and education about this country’s past are crucial.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 2024-02-21
  • Gloria and the council designated Juneteenth as an official paid holiday for city of San Diego employees earlier this year.
    — Dessa Kuritz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-07-03
  • These benches were installed on Juneteenth in 2021, which is the federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2024-02-09
  • Maze also works with organizations such as Be More Green, an after-school program focused on eating healthy, on Juneteenth celebrations.
    — Alecia Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 2023-09-19
  • The county closed the site, formerly known as Latta Plantation, to the public in 2021 after uproar over organizers promoting a racist Juneteenth event.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 2025-03-21
  • Adewumi, a creative designer and photographer, will use the grant to train in computer numerical control operations, which will integrate sculpture into his Juneteenth House project, an ongoing project of the themes and meaning of that holiday.
    — James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2025
  • By June of this year, the choir was performing at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s celebration of Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field and at a Juneteenth event at Wrigley Field.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025

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