“June 19, or Juneteenth, was the day that the last enslaved Black people were finally freed in Galveston, Tex., more than two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s not a holiday that is widely celebrated outside African-American communities, and so perhaps I can be excused for thinking, as all people secretly do, that my birthday was special.”
The Globe And Mail
2020-06-21