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Celebrating Immigrants Across the Nation

Cities and states across the nation are issuing official declarations in celebration of #ImmigrantHeritageMonth! See how your local and state officials are marking the occasion:

Cities with Proclamations

Share Your #Celebrate Immigrants Story

Write your story

Draft a digital message on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram responding to the prompt, "I #IStandWithImmigrants Because..." and tell us why you are joining the movement this Immigrant Heritage Month.

Take a picture

Take a picture or find a picture of yourself, a family member, person in your community, organization, or item of personal significance that represents your immigrant tradition.

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Share your message on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter with the hashtag #CelebrateImmigrants

#CELEBRATE IMMIGRANTS

We all know someone with an immigration experience or have an immigrant heritage story of our own. Join us in sharing your story for a chance to be featured on our official channels!

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No matter where you're from, or how you came here, we stand with you! Join I Stand With Immigrants as we celebrate the power of immigrants across the country.

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Alzheimer's Association /| Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month

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GO PURPLE

Purple is the official color of the Alzheimer's movement.

Turn Facebook Purple

Change your profile picture to raise awareness.

get started

Share why you go purple

Use this hashtag to join the conversation.

Get Inspired

Share your story

Be part of our gallery by sharing a photo on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtags #ENDALZ or #EndAlzheimers. Follow us at @alzassociation to stay tuned in to all the ways you can take action in June.

take action

Get involved today - because your brain is worth saving!

(It's small, but it's mighty.)

Join us on June 21 for The Longest Day ®. Together, the strength of our light will outshine the darkness of Alzheimer's.

REGISTER NOW

Make Alzheimer's a national priority and create widespread awareness of this devastating disease.

Become an Advocate

Our volunteers are passionate, inspired, and making a difference in the fight to end Alzheimer's.

Become a Volunteer

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June is Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month

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Purple is the official color of the Alzheimer's movement. Change your profile picture to raise awareness. get started Use this hashtag to join the conversation. Get Inspired Be part of our gallery by sharing a photo on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtags #ENDALZ or #EndAlzheimers.

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A Proclamation on National Caribbean American Heritage Month
June 2023

May 31, 2023

During Caribbean-American Heritage Month, we celebrate the achievements and dreams of the millions of people of Caribbean origin now living in the United States while honoring the shared history of joy and perseverance that has united and enriched life across our region for centuries.
There is no single Caribbean American identity. The mix of cultures, languages, and religions alive across the United States and the islands reflects the diversity of spirit that defines the American story. Meanwhile, our countries are bound by common values and a shared history - overcoming the yoke of colonialism, confronting the original sin of slavery, and charting new opportunities
across borders and generations.
Since our founding, Caribbean Americans from Alexander Hamilton to Colin Powell have contributed to the United States in the most profound ways. Today, pathbreakers like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor continue advancing our work toward a more perfect Union. I am especially proud of the extraordinary leaders of Caribbean heritage now serving in my Administration ‑- from Vice President Kamala Harris to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. And I take equal pride in the generations of Caribbean Americans who literally built this country - bringing tremendous hope and energy to bear as small business owners, teachers, health care workers, military service members, union organizers, community leaders, and so much more.
For too long, too many have faced systemic barriers to success. As President, I have issued two separate Executive Orders to change that, pushing to advance racial justice across every policy that my Administration pursues. As we have passed historic laws to rebuild our Nation's infrastructure, lower prescription drug costs, create a clean energy economy, and transform American manufacturing to once again lead the world, we have done so with an eye for equity, rebuilding our economy from the middle out and bottom up. As a result, we have created 12.7 million jobs - bringing Black and Latino unemployment to record lows - and we have helped millions to start and grow their own businesses. At the same time, we are using all the tools we have to make our Nation's broken immigration system as orderly, safe, and humane as possible, sending support to the border while expanding lawful pathways for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans - among others - to come to the United States without taking the dangerous journey to our southern border. What we really need is for the Congress to finally pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, farm and essential workers, and temporary status holders, many of whom are from the Caribbean. I will not quit pressing the Congress to act.
Beyond our borders, we are working with our Caribbean partners to expand opportunity and keep the region safe so more of our neighbors can build lives at home. We partnered with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in November 2022 to launch the Crime Gun Intelligence Unit and disrupt firearms trafficking in the region. We are also working to improve access to development financing and advance clean energy projects across the Caribbean through the United States-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis 2030.
A central promise of this country is the idea that everyone is created equal and deserves to be treated equally throughout their lives. It is a cornerstone of our common heritage in this hemisphere, even as we keep striving to finally make that vision real. Caribbean-American Heritage Month is a chance to celebrate the rich diversity that covenant has brought us and to renew its promise for future generations of Caribbean Americans and for us all.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2023 as National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. I encourage all Americans to join in celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of Caribbean Americans with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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Official Site - Caribbean American Heritage Month

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CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTHHonoring Our Journey, Shaping Our Future In June 2005, the House of Representatives unanimously adopted H. Con. Res. 71, sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, recognizing the significance... Read more

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History of Race Unity Day

The Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly started Race Unity Day. The assembly, which was founded in 1844, is a nine-member elected council given the responsibility of coordinating, guiding, and reviving the affairs of both the local spiritual assemblies as well as the Bahá'í community's individual members in a country. The National Spiritual Assembly must encourage the development and enthusiasm of the national Bahá'í community, answer questions from people and Local Spiritual Assemblies, and strengthen the Bahá'í community's role in societal life at the national level.

Although Race Unity Day is organized by Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly, it is neither a religious event nor a Bahá'í holy day. The holiday is celebrated all over the world as an extension of Bahá'í beliefs and principles of racial harmony and as an appeal to the larger society to promote a loving embrace of the social reality of ever-increasing racial diversity. The holiday is not a holy day in the traditional sense but it can be regarded as a day that contributes to what some scholars call 'civil religion' as part of cultural ideas that keep evolving.

Racism is not just applicable in cultural settings, it also applies to legal, economic, or political institutions and systems that engage in racial discrimination or encourage inequalities due to race in education, wealth, and civil rights. With the introduction of critical race theory which was an extension of the critical legal studies movement, institutional or systemic racism became a focus of scholarly studies in the 1980s. Since the late 20th Century, the concept of biological race has been acknowledged as a cultural fabrication with no scientific foundation.

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The Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly started Race Unity Day. The assembly, which was founded in 1844, is a nine-member elected council given the responsibility of coordinating, guiding, and reviving the affairs of both the local spiritual assemblies as well as the Bahá'í community's individual members in a country.

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America's largest
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024

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The National Puerto Rican Day celebrates and honors the leaders, educators, artists, and celebrities that have left a cultural footprint on this nation.

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National Puerto Rican Day Parade | PR Parade

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The National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) is the largest demonstration of cultural pride in the nation.

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This Jan. 26, 1965, file photo shows Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving. Bernard S. Cohen, who successfully challenged a Virginia law banning interracial marriage.
AP

When Richard and Mildred Loving awoke in the middle of the night a few weeks after their June 1958 wedding, it wasn't normal newlywed ardor. There were policemen with flashlights in their bedroom. They'd come to arrest the couple.

"They asked Richard who was that woman he was sleeping with? I say, I'm his wife, and the sheriff said, not here you're not. And they said, come on, let's go, Mildred Loving recalled that night in the HBO documentary The Loving Story.

The Lovings had committed what Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white. Their case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won.

Now, each year on this date, "Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, whichdeclared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage - and legalized interracial marriage in every state.

The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail

After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison.

They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.

Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.

The ACLU takes up their case

The lawyers asked the court to look closely at whether the Virginia law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. If the framers had intended to exclude anti-miscegenation status in the 14th Amendment, which assures equal protection under the law, they argued that it would have been easy for them to write a phrase excluding interracial marriage, but they didn't Cohen argued:

"The language was broad, the language was sweeping. The language meant to include equal protection for Negroes that was at the very heart of it and that equal protection included the right to marry as any other human being had the right to marry subject to only the same limitations."

The Lovings argue they just want the same rights

Cohen forcefully, but calmly argued that the Lovings and their children, just like any other family, had the right to feel protected under the law.

"And that is the right of Richard and Mildred Loving to wake up in the morning or to go to sleep at night knowing that the sheriff will not be knocking on their door or shining a light in their face in the privacy of their bedroom for illicit co-habitation."

When asked if he had a message for the justices, the normally-quiet Richard did: Tell them I love my wife, he said.

The court makes a landmark ruling

On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in the Lovings' favor. The unanimous decision upheld that distinctions drawn based on race were not constitutional. The court's decision made it clear that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The landmark civil rights decision declared prohibitions on interracial marriage unconstitutional in the nation.

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for the court; he wrote that marriage is a basic civil right and to deny this right on a basis of color is "directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment" and seizes all citizens "liberty without due process of law."

In recent years, people around the country have commemorated the ruling with Loving Day celebrations.

Today, 55 years later, it has evolved into an observation of the larger struggle for racial justice.
This piece uses information from Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. a 2015 Morning Edition segment by Karen Grigsby Bates.

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June 12 is Loving Day - when interracial marriage finally became legal in the U.S.

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"Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race marriage - and legalized interracial marriage in every state.

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with the news that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free.

This day came to be known as Juneteenth, now officially a federal holiday. Juneteenth is a time to celebrate, gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future.

Juneteenth and the Color Red

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Each year when my family celebrates Juneteenth, our flyers boldly request that each quest bring something "Red." We then add examples, like red soda pop, watermelon, apples, or even red beans. Folks bring these items without much thinking about their origin. In fact, the roots of the symbolic efficacy of the color red can be traced to West Africa, where it has been associated with strength, spirituality, life, and death. Furthermore, culinary historians, trace the color to certain foods that traveled to the Americas along with the Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, such as hibiscus and the kola nut.

So, this year at Juneteenth, as you take a long swallow from a cool drink of hibiscus iced tea, or red punch, remember the ancestors who sacrificed, remember the blood shed in the struggle, remember the collective strength of people of the African diaspora, and finally remember the spirituality and transcendent joy that enabled us to overcome.
~Kelly Navies, museum specialist and oral historian

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As you celebrate Juneteenth this year, the museum offers additional resources to help you embrace the rich history of Freedom Day.

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Facts About Juneteenth

The National Museum of African American History and Culture's curator of women's history Angela Tate and museum specialist and oral historian Kelly Navies provide history and insight on Juneteenth.

How has the holiday evolved over the years?

Angela Tate, museum curator of women's history: "As with many things involving African American history and culture, Juneteenth is not without its own debates and detractors. Recent efforts to generate support for making it a national holiday have been met with resistance. Several Black Texans have been critical of how the state and Southern culture have been excised from the conversations and commemorations. Chaédria LaBouvier, the first Black curator at the Guggenheim Museum, tweeted in late 2020 about the lack of specificity when discussing Juneteenth and the Southern roots of African American culture:
'Histories, practices, etc that traceably originate or were developed as we currently iterate them in places that we are not living descendants of said history or ppl - we are doing the toxic, colonial thing to each other that has been done to us.'
"This sharp reminder of Juneteenth's cultural roots is echoed in a letter to the editor sent to the Atlanta Daily World in 1983, when Texas State Representative Al Edwards reminded Atlanta readers that 'Juneteenth celebrations originated here in Texas...In 1979 the 66th Legislature passed and the Governor signed my H.B. 1016 which going into effect next year made Emancipation Day an official state holiday.' When digging even further into Black newspapers, the evidence of Texas being at the heart of Juneteenth is clear: newspaper articles from the first half of the twentieth century characterize it as a strictly Texas holiday, whereas in the second half of twentieth century, it has flourished in a variety of cities, with Los Angeles being the most prevalent city of celebration.

"This is no coincidence: California was the destination for African Americans from Texas and Louisiana in the 1940s-70s, undoubtedly drawn by the continuous sunshine and the similar ethnic populations (it was split amongst black, white, and brown, as opposed to the black and white binary in the rest of the South). However, even Black newspapers from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento reveal how often Juneteenth was merely an excuse to gather over food, drinks, and music. At one celebration held in 1988, the usual red soda and funk was swapped out for finger foods as guests listened to classical music! Later, in the early 2000s, Black leaders saw in Juneteenth a piece of the overall push for reparations and federal acknowledgement and redress for the harms of slavery and Jim Crow."

Commemorative Merchandise

Transcribe Freedmen's Bureau Records

Learn about the post-Civil War transition of enslaved people by volunteering to transcribe the records of the Freedmen's Bureau, which is accessible online, through the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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National Indigenous People Day (June 21, 2024)

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National Indigenous People Day (June 21, 2024)

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Many cities and states are observing the day. Here’s some of the history behind it.

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Got an idea for a holiday? Send it to us

America's Flag Day marks the Second Continental Congress's adoption of the first U.S. national flag on June 14, 1777. The first flag featured the same 13 red and white stripes we see today. However, the number and arrangement of stars have changed as the number of states has increased over the centuries. The current flag has remained the same since 1960. Will we ever go from 50 to 51? Read on for a look at some possible statehood candidates. And consider this a warmup for Independence Day - in just 20 days.

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Flag Day marks the Second Continental Congress' adoption of the first U.S. national flag on June 14, 1777. Question of the day: What will be the 51st state?