{"id":292414,"date":"2025-06-14T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-values-launches-been-banned-series-on-censored-history\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:28:53","slug":"alabama-values-launches-been-banned-series-on-censored-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=292414","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Values launches &#8220;Been Banned&#8221; series on censored history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahead of celebrating Juneteenth, Alabama Values hosted a virtual event to launch the \u201cBeen Banned\u201d series, intended to challenge the erasure of Black history and affirm local cultural traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anneshia Hardy, executive director of Alabama Values, framed the event as both a historical reckoning and a strategic response to current efforts to \u201cban\u201d or limit the teaching of concepts such as systemic racism and white privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a celebration of freedom. It\u2019s a celebration of how our people have always chosen joy, creativity and community in the face of deep injustice,\u201d said Hardy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The featured speaker, Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum, a Montgomery native and historian, delivered an in-depth keynote exploring Juneteenth not as a singular moment of liberation, but as part of a broader tradition of self-determined Black celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown Pellum used examples from Alabama to illustrate how community-rooted celebrations operate as both cultural expression and resistance. She recalled the Turkey Day Classic in Montgomery, a football game between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University, as a major cultural event treated by local residents as \u201cBlack Thanksgiving,\u201d complete with meals, family gatherings and public pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just a football game. It was the crown jewel of Black college classics. It centered community, not pilgrim mythology,\u201d said Brown Pellum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown Pellum also highlighted Montgomery\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parades as grassroots commemorations began by those who had participated in the Civil Rights Movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referencing Mobile\u2019s Mardi Gras and its often-overlooked Black roots, Brown Pellum explained how even widely celebrated American holidays often have foundations in Black cultural labor and aesthetics, particularly in the South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discussion also addressed the historical distortions surrounding Juneteenth itself. Brown Pellum challenged the belief that enslaved Texans were unaware of their freedom until the arrival of Union troops. She explained that many had heard of emancipation long before General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in June 1865, but couldn\u2019t act on that knowledge due to violent suppression and the lack of military enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJuneteenth, while it\u2019s a powerful marker, it\u2019s not a clean break from bondage. It reminds us that freedom was not simply declared. It had to be fought for, claimed, and protected through action and collective will,\u201d said Brown Pellum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizers described a coordinated wave of legislative efforts across the country, including in Alabama, to suppress the teaching of Black history, limit diversity initiatives, and police language in schools and workplaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cBeen Banned\u201d series hopes to counter those trends by offering \u201ca traveling community education and advocacy program focused on book bans, censorship, and truth-telling in public spaces.\u201d Future programming under the \u201cBeen Banned\u201d banner will include additional public events and curated educational content produced in collaboration with The History Consultants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is about reclaiming what\u2019s been distorted, forgotten, or buried. The fight for truth and liberation is ongoing, and our ancestors left us a blueprint\u2014not just for resistance, but for joy and community-building,\u201d said Hardy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In emphasizing local culture as a form of historical preservation, Brown Pellum concluded that Black community practices are not incidental.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve never needed permission to honor our dead, to crown our daughters, or to remember. These are acts of self-regard and self-definition,\u201d said Brown Pellum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alabama lawmakers passed HB165 in early May 2025, officially designating Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, which mandates the closure of all state offices in observance of emancipation. Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of celebrating Juneteenth, Alabama Values hosted a virtual event to launch the \u201cBeen Banned\u201d series, intended to challenge the erasure of Black history and affirm local cultural traditions. 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