“Juneteenth” is a portmanteau of June and nineteen and a parlance of Black American structure. The moniker hails the date June 19, 1865—the day that enslaved Black people in Texas got the news that slavery was abolished. Here’s the rub, slaves in America were legally freed on enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, […]

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