WATCH: DisneyPlus's theproudfamily reboot features protest over statue, police clash
Since its release, the episode"Juneteenth" began getting viral attention on social media for its discussion of race and slavery.A promotional clip of the episode shows the character Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins and her friends exploring the history of Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, in her fictional town of Smithville, California. As they learn more about their city's history, they discover that Smithville’s founder was a slave owner.
Maya later attends history class and learns about the history of Smithville. She is skeptical of her white teacher's celebratory teachings of the city's founder and questioned whether he owned a plantation. The teacher is abrupt and angry in response to her questions. Maya's classmate Michael Collins interjects,"Why are we just learning this? This should be the first sentence of his biography."
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