Taylor Swift has marked Juneteenth with a message highlighting the significance of the holiday and she shared an article from The Root that included a video of its history, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read to Texan slaves on the 19th of June 1865, after the South lost the U.S. Civil War.
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively took to Instagram Sunday to share that they have donated $200,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The Hollywood power couple wrote; "We've never had to worry about preparing our kids for different rules of law". "We're ashamed that in the past we've allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is." Lively added that they want to "talk to our kids about everything, all of it, especially our own complicity.