Celebrating alongside Juneteenth festivities around the nation, networks and streaming platforms are offering television specials, a music festival and a Netflix film to commemorate Sunday’s holiday.
June 19, known as Juneteenth, became a federal holiday only last year. It marks the date the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, became aware of the freeing of the enslaved in secessionist states by the Emancipation Proclamation, more than two years after it was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863.
