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By Victoria Uwumarogie ·Updated June 14, 2022
This story appears in the May/June issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands now.
Before Juneteenth was made into a federal holiday in the United States, in 2021, many thought the date was celebrated only by folks who lived in Texas. It’s true that since Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay on June 19, 1865, and announced to more than 250,000 enslaved Black people that they
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