[From the Archives] On Juneteenth
Hello Family,
Today is Juneteenth.
Here is something that I wrote last year about Juneteenth’s relatively new status as a federal holiday and my complicated relationship to the idea:
Excerpt:
And our scars measure history: The Texas Ancestors did not receive the news of the Emancipation Proclamation—President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 statement marking the en…
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