After all, it would be “erev Juneteenth,” Jordan said — a mashup of the Hebrew word denoting the eve of Jewish observances and the name of the holiday commemorating the day Black people ...
As celebrations erupted and cannons fired in 1776, my ancestors' freedom was not yet tangible. That was the case until nearly 100 years later, on June 19, 1863, or what is now recognized as ...
In essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the rebellious states.
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