For those of you who aren’t in the US, June 19, or “Juneteenth,” celebrates the end of slavery in the US. It falls on the anniversary of the day in 1865 when emancipation was made official in Texas. It’s not a national holiday though there have been calls to make it such, but it is an important day whose importance is only growing at a time when we (or…
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