Like MLK Day, Juneteenth Overcomes Shortsightedness
Congress has made June 19 a national holiday. "Juneteenth," which President Biden officially signs into law today, pays homage to the date in 1865 when a Union general in Galveston, upon discovering that African Americans were still being enslaved in Texas 30 months after the Emancipation Proclamation, decreed simply that "All slaves are free."