Black entertainers, athletes converge to deliver messages of social activism.
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Natasha Cloud marches to the MLK Memorial to support Black Lives Matter and marking the end of slavery in the U.S., on June 19, 2020, in Washington. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law.
Cloud has publicly attended rallies for the BLM movement, including one in Washington, D.C., where she plays for the Mystics, this year on Juneteenth.Filmmakers have made their passionate plea against systemic injustices in their most trusted platform, their art. Throughout their visual medium of storytelling, they've honored black victims and fought racial injustice.
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