Brown Public Relations welcomes Kyla Perkins as Assistant Social/Media Manager and Producer. Kyla is familiar with the agency, she is a former Account Support Strategist intern. A Chicago native, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Tougaloo College where she gained additional experience in literary analysis, editing, and producing. She will be responsible for producing, writing, and managing social media programs of multiple agency…
On June 19, 1865—a full two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation—Union General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas. In the years that followed, Black communities, first in Texas and then across the United States, gathered to mark the day that became commonly known as Juneteenth. While knowledge of Juneteenth has evolved and grown,…