Today, June 19, is “Juneteenth” and if you’re unsure of what this holiday represents, you’re not alone. I learned about this day just last week when SB Nation announced that it would be a company holiday.
Juneteenth is an annual celebration for the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday commemorates this day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Texas to ensure ALL enslaved people were freed, even though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation happened two and half years prior. This date serves as a reminder that “nobody is free until everybody is freed.”u2063
After I looked it up, I was shocked.