Today we celebrate Juneteenth, a powerful reminder of freedom realized and justice long delayed. While it became a national holiday in 2021, its roots reach back to June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that all enslaved people were free—two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln…
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