Today is Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day. It commemorates the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, the final holdout of the Confederacy, were liberated by the U.S. Army, on June 19, […]

On June 19, the United States commemorates the ending of slavery in our country. From its Galveston, Texas, origin in 1865, the observance of Juneteenth as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across our nation. […]