06/19/2026
Juneteenth Reads from *The Footnotes ✊🏽📚
This Juneteenth, we’re celebrating Black freedom, creativity, identity, faith, and place through stories that challenge, inspire, and affirm. Whether you’re exploring Black history, culture, theology, geography, or self-expression, these books offer powerful perspectives on the Black experience.
📖 Featured Reads:
• Clothes to Make You Smile
• Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
• My Beautiful Black Hair
• A Black Theology of Liberation
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
✨ What’s on your Juneteenth reading list?
Clothes to Make You Smile
Patrick Kelly’s story reminds us that Black creativity can transform fashion, culture, and the world.
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
How Black communities shape—and are shaped by—the spaces they inhabit.
My Beautiful Black Hair
Celebrating identity, beauty, confidence, and the stories woven into Black hair.
A Black Theology of Liberation
James Cone’s foundational work connecting faith, justice, and Black freedom.
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
Damon Young’s sharp, funny, and insightful reflections on Black life in America.
Freedom is also the freedom to learn, imagine, create, and tell our stories. ✊🏽
Happy Juneteenth from *The Footnotes ✨📚