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As long as I can remember, Juneteenth was always celebrated in my house growing up. Maybe because my family on both sides are generationally Texan, and on my father’s side, those roots trace back to Jack Yates himself — the man who, alongside other formerly enslaved Black men, purchased land in Houston so Black people could gather and
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