06.19.2023 Community Juneteenth: Freedom and history celebrated in Greenport Freedom. That word was on everyone’s mind and in their speeches on a warm, sunny Saturday morning on Third Street in Greenport. The occasion was the Clinton Memorial African...
06.18.2023 Community Guest Column: Juneteenth’s path to a national holiday It’s said that a “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s certainly true of Opal Lee, a retired school teacher and mother of four from...
06.16.2023 Editorials Editorial: Juneteenth reminds us freedom is everything On June 19, 1865, Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of slavery that began in Virginia...