It’s fair to say this Juneteenth that Black America is suffering Black fatigue. Mary-Frances Winters, who coined the term “Black fatigue,” calls it the personal and collective exhaustion of navigating widespread anti-Black racism. In 2026, such fatigue follows opponents of the Civil Rights Movement scoring a major victory at the Supreme Court in their long war against the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While it is dispiriting that Black people were better off last Juneteenth than this one, we shouldn’t despair that we have inevitably entered another nadir of Black life. Despair would betray the spirit of Juneteenth and be
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