A whole host of influential celebrities commemorated Juneteenth with gushing tributes in honour of the federal holiday.
The day, which is seen by many as America's second Independence Day, falls on June 19 every year in memory of the day in 1865 when General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, one of the last bastions of Confederate slavery and announced that enslaved people in the state were free.
Although it has been celebrated for over 150 years, it wasn't until 2021 that President Joe Biden proclaimed it a federal holiday.
