Hegseth reportedly orders ‘passive approach to Juneteenth’ at Pentagon

Messaging request for holiday marking Black emancipation comes as Trump administration wages anti-DEI campaignThe office of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, requested “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging,” according to an exclusive Rolling Stone report citing a Pentagon email.This messaging request for Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free, was transmitted by the Pentagon’s office of the chief of public affairs. This office said it was not poised to publish web content related to Juneteenth, Rolling Stone said. Continue reading...

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