Celebrating Juneteenth in the Mohawk Valley
By Hilda M. Jordan Juneteenth is a joyful celebration of progress and promise. It became a federal holiday in 2021, but its origin reaches back to June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Racism, inequality, and exclusion were […]