Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Hulu series host to speak at Juneteenth event in Springfield

Capitol Fax ^ | June 8, 2026 | Isabel Miller

[PBRCat]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Hulu series host Nikole Hannah-Jones is set to speak at a Juneteenth event in Springfield. The University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies, in partnership with Juneteenth Inc., the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the UIS Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice, will host a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, host and executive producer of the Hulu docuseries “The 1619 Project,” as part of its Juneteenth Lecture Series.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1619project; fakenews; hoax; springfield

[PBRCat]

Shameful to see tax dollars being used to subsidize this historical fraudster.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Is that the one for queers or blacks? I can’t keep up.

[escapefromboston]

Are we still pretending to care about Juneteenth ??

[T.B. Yoits]

[lee martell]

Trump may not want to touch this politically Hot Potato, but Juneteenth being a Federally declared holiday
(Thanks Biden!), doesn’t the president have the ability to change that and leave it up to the States to decide whether and how to acknowledge this date?

This is what I expect will happen, perhaps closer to the end of his present term.

[Kleon]

It’s not a hot potato because nobody cares about it and it only divides people. He seemed open to banning it last year when he said the federal government doesn’t need so many days off.

[Vermont Lt]

My wife is retiring this summer. We are relishing every paid holiday from now until the end of August. It doesn’t matter if they are “real” or “pretend.” That’s eight hours of holiday pay we can grab from her employer!

[butlerweave]

Juneteenth just more Gibberish

[broken_clock]

[Skywise]

She’s a complete hack

[No name given]

And a con artist.

[No name given]

Very.

[Fai Mao]

Juneteenth is a legit holiday if you live in Texas. But only Texas, not the rest of the US. A better holiday would be the anniversary of the actual Emancipation Proclamation.

[ealgeone]

I for one will not be recognizing the DIE holiday.

[Round Earther]

Was the holiday enacted by Executive Order?

[Tell It Right]

Us conservatives and Christians are missing a golden opportunity. Every mention of Juneteenth or slavery is a chance for us to chest thump and declare that all of America should be thankful for the Christian abolitionists and that the pro-slavery Dims lost the argument.

[Fai Mao]

You are correct.

[lee martell]

I think it was. One of Biden’s many attempts to pander and appease those who will never stop asking for more.

[kawhill]

“Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Hulu series host to speak at Juneteenth event in Springfield”. There should be an American Farmer/Rancher Juneteenth.

[KC_Conspirator]

This was supposed to be a gift to African Americans to vote for the democrap party forever. Reality is most Africans Americans dont know what the hell Juneteenth is and the democrap party is now leaking African American voters.