Tag: Juneteenth

Almost two weeks ago, Congress approved Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The day celebrates the end of slavery in the United States and it also reminds us about how emancipation was delayed for many enslaved people. Juneteenth...
This month we celebrate a milestone, 150 years ago on June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger officially announced slavery was dead to those still oppressed in Texas and Juneteenth was born. Remarkably, this occurred two-and-a-half years after...

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