Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black experience in America.
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Julie Depenbrock
Juneteenth falls on June 19 and celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
On June 19, 1865, union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued some two and a half years earlier.
More than 150 years later, President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday.
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