Historian Clint Smith on Juneteenth
Reckoning with the legacy of slavery
Democracy Now! featured “a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday,” commemorating June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.”
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