Freedom, Delayed but Not Denied: Why Juneteenth Matters

We Were Never Meant to Survive—And Yet We Rise

They tried to bury us. But we are the seeds. And Juneteenth? That’s when we bloom—loud, unapologetic, unstoppable.”

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word that the Civil War had ended and they were free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed.

This day, known as Juneteenth, …