
Juneteenth: Honoring the Legacy of Black Americans and the Pursuit of Racial Equality
By Malisea “Lisa” Gardner Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Although President Lincoln emancipated slaves in 1863, it took two long years for the news to reach the last remaining enslaved people in Galveston, TX, and on June 19th, 1865, those slaves heard