🙏🏾✊🏾 Repost from denny_ow “Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of the Civil War and end of slavery. However, the Emancipation Proclamation came two and a half years earlier on January 1, 1863. Many enslavers continued to hold enslaved people captive after the announcement, so Juneteenth because a symbolic date representing African American freedom.” . __ __ #juneteenth #juneteenth20201 #blacklivesmatter #freeish #freedom #art #artistsoninstagram #artist #blackart #blackculture #blackartists #africanamerican