Media editors (and others), please stop repeating the lie about #Juneteenth, that enslaved Texans "didn't know" about the Emancipation Proclamation. As Christopher Wilson explained, "It Was Not the 'News' That Traveled Slowly — It Was 'Power'” to end slavery. www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee...
Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom from slavery in the United States. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be ...