✊🏾 Juneteenth belongs to #us. But the history belongs to Texas and Black Texans want to make sure we never forget that. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last enslaved African Americans of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Black Texans preserved this holiday through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and generations of silence before it finally became a federal holiday in 2021. For historian Deah Berry Mitchell, Juneteenth was never just a cookout. "It was never just a single day," she told Blavity. "It was the culmination of weeks of preparation, church services, speeches to memorize, poems to recite. And at the end we were gifted with this amazing day of community." And Mary Jean Edmon, crowned Miss Juneteenth 2006 in Fort Worth, has a concern as the holiday grows nationally. "I think since the national recognition, a lot of the Texas history and connection and celebration of Southern culture has been lost,"...