Juneteenth was celebrated across major professional sports leagues and teams — with two notable exceptions
The social media accounts for America's top professional sports leagues and their teams embraced Friday’s federal Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the freeing of Black enslaved people in America — offering, in some notable instances, a significant contrast to the manner in which those same leagues and teams handled the start of Pride Month.
The NFL, the country's most successful and popular professional league, celebrated Juneteenth on social media by reposting some teams' recognition of the day.