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Black illustrator creates Juneteenth Google tribute: ‘It’s time to celebrate us’
If you noticed the colorful work of the Juneteenth Google Doodle, you may have wanted to know more about the artist. Detroit-based Rachelle Baker, is a self-described multi-disciplinary artist who has provided art for books including “Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream” by Blair Imani from Ten Speed Press, “Shirley Chisholm is a Verb” by Veronica Chambers from Dial Books/Penguin Random House, Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope from Abrams Books, and “Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds. In a blog post, Google explained why they chose to honor the holiday, which was just signed into law as a federal holiday by President Joe Biden this week.
