Juneteenth: A Day to Keep Fighting for Freedom
By Kymani Hughes On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward and forever free.” However, the story of freedom did not start, and certainly did not end with him. Since the beginning of enslavement, enslaved Black…