SUNDAY REVIEW / JUNETEENTH IN ONE PARAGRAPH AND ONE NOVEL

Oceanside’s (CA) Bliss Tea & Treats tearoom will be celebrating Juneteenth with a sock hop and poetry event and African and West Indies-inspired food. Owner Rushell Gordon said she wanted to do something fun to celebrate June 19, 1865, when Texas freed enslaved Black Americans. 

 Source: San Diego Union Tribune. Photo: Lisa Hornak 

"Juneteeth, the Novel" is a work by the late Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man).  For more about Juneteenth and Ralph Ellison CLICK HERE.