06/18/2026
Get Repost App • Blair Imani Ali • Smarter in Seconds Let’s get Smarter in Seconds about Juneteenth!
For more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, at least 250,000 people remained enslaved in Texas until U.S. troops arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865.
Juneteenth is not the day that chattel enslavement ended in the United States but it’s a deeply important part of our collective history and African American people’s ongoing struggle for freedom.
I hope you’ll join me and the Grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, in sharing the truth and the spirit of this holiday.