Happy Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth.
It’s a day I’ve thought about deeply every year of my life — but this year, standing where I’m standing, it hits different.
You probably know the history. On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced that enslaved people were free. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two and a half years earli…
