I’m ashamed to admit that until a few years ago, I didn’t know what Juneteenth was, never mind what it represented to the Black community.
The date, June 19, now a federal holiday after legislation sailed through Congress earlier this week and was signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday, marked the end of slavery in Texas in 1865. On that day, a Union general rode into one of the most remote parts of the South and pronounced the Civil War was over and all slaves were free.
