
Juneteenth's history serves as a warning of white backlash
Juneteenth—June 19, 1865— marks the day when the last collective of enslaved people heard the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX, a full two years after Abraham Lincoln delivered it. Derrick Spires, associate professor of English, studies early African American literature, culture and citizenship and is the author of “The Practice of...