160 years after its inception, a guide to what is Juneteenth and how to celebrate it
- Posted on June 16, 2025
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160 years after its inception, a guide to what is Juneteenth and how to celebrate it

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation