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18.06.2021 / 00:25
How Pharrell Williams Helped Virginia Make Juneteenth a Holiday — Through the Governor’s Blackface Scandal
Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicA year ago, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, Pharrell Williams braved air travel to head to his home state of Virginia and stand beside Governor Ralph Northam as he called for Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 (June 19) when the last slaves in Texas learned of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, to be declared a state holiday.The politician, a doctor by trade, had been in office less than two years and had already found himself marred in