![]() ![]() ![]() It honors their lives and their never-ending hope that one day we might all be free. “Celebrating Juneteenth with your children honors the enslaved whose shoulders we stand on. And, if it isn’t passed down in Black families, it’s usually forgotten. Unfortunately, my history teachers also failed to educate me about Juneteenth. That includes many Black people,” Yolanda Williams, founder of Parenting Decolonized, tells Romper. “With all the fuss around Critical Race Theory, nobody is really discussing the fact that history has never been properly taught in schools and much of Black history is purposely withheld or whitewashed, which is why Juneteenth wasn't on many people's radar until Summer 2020. ![]() But it would take more than two and a half years for enslavers in Galveston, Texas to comply. In school, we learn about President Lincoln signing the emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring all who were enslaved to be freed. It’s also known as Freedom Day, and because Black people were still being bought and sold during the birth of America’s “Independence Day,” Juneteenth is our true Fourth of July. Juneteenth represents June 19, 1865, a day celebrated in the Black community to acknowledge when the last of those enslaved in the United States (in Galveston, Texas) were released as free American citizens. ![]()
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