This Juneteenth, Let’s Celebrate International Black Struggle
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 19, 2024
Transport yourself back into the past, to the year 1865. What if you had been a slave? You had seen friends and family sold. You had been whipped and worked to exhaustion. Every day was a nightmare. Now, a Union army officer, Major General Gordon Granger, arrives in Galveston, Texas, and issues a proclamation that ends slavery.
Imagine that joy. Cheers erupt. Newly freed men and women embrace. Hats are thrown into the air. On a hot June 19 . . .
