Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• AP | Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain – and now national action (6 min read)
• Axios | News Shapers Honoring Juneteenth (live virtual event today @ 12:30-1:15pm ET)
• BET | Spend Juneteenth with BET’s Freedom Day Marathon (30 sec trailer)
• CNN | Let Juneteenth be White America’s wake-up call to be a better ally (5 min read)
• Ebony | Miss Juneteenth exclusive with Nicole Beharie (5 min read)
• Essence | Juneteenth and national new beginnings (6 min read)
• MLB.com | Major League Baseball celebrates Juneteenth (6 min read)
• MotorTrend | Driving While Black: Chronicling a Chapter in America’s History on the Road (13 minute read)
• MotorTrend | Racing While Black: How Willy T. Ribbs Battled Racism on the Racetrack (14 min read)
• National Geographic | Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope (11 min read)
• NPR: Celebrating Juneteenth: A reading of the Emancipation Proclamation (6 min listen)
• The New York Times | How We Juneteenth (Article series)
• The Root | Juneteenth Is Finally Entering the Mainstream American Consciousness. Now Make It An Official Federal Holiday (3 min watch)
• Smithsonian – National Museum of African American History & Culture | The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth (2 min read)
• The Texas Tribune | U.S. Sen. John Cornyn will file bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (3 min read)
• The Undefeated | Like the original Juneteenth celebrants, we are still fighting for black humanity (6 min read)
• The Washington Post | Why hundreds of American newsrooms have started capitalizing the ‘b’ in ‘Black’ (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives (3 min read)
• USA Today | Juneteenth TV specials to celebrate: ‘Black-ish’ marathon, ‘Selma,’ ‘Get Out’ and more (5 min read)
• Vox | Juneteenth, explained (7 min watch OR 12 min read)