19/06/2026
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when 250,000 African American slaves in Texas were declared free by the U.S. government more than two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The incremental end of slavery marked the beginning of a new struggle for economic liberation and equality, and in far too many ways that struggle continues today.
On this Freedom Day, we remember that our words of solidarity are only as powerful as the actions that accompany them.