Saturday, June 19, 2021

Juneteenth

 
It is a day for poetry and song,
a new song.
These cloudless skies,
this balmy air,
this brilliant sunshine . . .
are in harmony with
the glorious morning of liberty
about to dawn up on us.

               Frederick Douglass

 

 

 

 

 

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