It’s been over 150 years since the first Juneteenth: the day when Union Army General Gordon Granger rode down to the city of Galveston to announce General Order No. 3, which freed enslaved Afro-Americans in the state of Texas and ended the institutional practice of slavery across the United States. Since then, June 19 has […]
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