06.18.2023 Community Columns 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 Opinion 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...
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