Three years ago Kenya Barris tried to bring awareness to Juneteenth when an entire episode of his show “Black-ish” was dedicated to the holiday.
Barris was a guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday and said that he and Pharrell Williams have created a Juneteenth musical that they’ll bring to Netflix.
Juneteenth was also acknowledged on Barris’ latest series “BlackAF,” as a party was thrown for the holiday during an episode.
Like Barris, Williams has worked to raise awareness about Juneteenth and helped to get his home state of Virginia to recognize it as an official paid holiday, which started this year for state employees.
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in 1865 for Black people in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in Confederate states as free.
