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It wasn't until 1976, during the height of the civil rights movement, that President Gerald Ford expanded the week into Black History Month.

Texas was the first to officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday, in 1980.

Pipeworks has created numerous high-profile games, letting players tear apart monsters in the Godzilla game series it created in the early 2000s, and more recently it helped make the popular football game "Madden 20."

Jones is the audio designer for Pipeworks Studios, one of Eugene’s most well-known current developers, and has worked there on and off since 2008.

Full-time video game development was always the dream for Eugene resident Britt Brady, but in 2014 the chances looked bleak.

Feeling inspired by the resurgence of popularity in pixel art games, he quit his painting job in 2015 to pursue developing games full time.

Lamar's album "DAMN." won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for storytelling that reflected the complex experience of Black life in America.

Multiple publishers turned Brady down, until the most high-profile one, Devolver, agreed to publish their first title together "Gato Roboto" in 2019.

In 2021, the Black Led Action Coalition (B.L.A.C.), Honoring Our New Ethnic Youth (H.O.N.E.Y.) and Xcape Dance Company banded together with local leaders to bring arts, education and participating speakers for the city’s second “Official Juneteenth Celebration.”