‘Miss Juneteenth’ review: The comeback of the pageant movie

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The new film “Miss Juneteenth” was released on the 155th anniversary of the first Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the delayed freedom of enslaved Black people in 1865.

Also Read: What to Watch on Juneteenth: A TV Viewing Guide (Photos)Dreams don’t come easily in “Miss Juneteenth,” and first-time feature director Peoples rarely overplays her hand or slips into melodrama.

Angelique Jackson Though Channing Godfrey Peoples’ directorial debut “Miss Juneteenth” is named for the holiday often called “Black Independence Day” or “Freedom Day,” the film is not a history lesson. At least not entirely.

What shoes are fit for an 89-year-old woman trekking nearly 1,400 miles from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, D.C. to fight for Juneteenth, the day slavery ended in America, to be recognized as a national holiday?

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in a press conference, after having spoken with state officials over the weekend about formally recognizing the holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, arrived at Galveston, Texas, and delivered the news that all enslaved people in U.S.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterOn June 19, 1865, slavery was abolished in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a benchmark in Black history and is more timely now than ever as it is a day to celebrate and champion Black voices.

Miss Juneteenth, the stunning SXSW award-winning debut of writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples that's out now. But the pageant culture that is the focus of her movie gives Black girls a hint of the American dream—a shiny spectacle, prohibitively expensive to enter, and life-changing for just a few winners, the Miss Juneteenth pageant offers a patina of respectability at a high cost.