Juneteenth is fast-approaching again for its fifth year as a federal holiday with a plethora of festivities popping up around the country to celebrate.
Juneteenth, a combination of June and nineteenth, commemorates the day Black Americans were officially made a free people. On 19 June 1865, union soldiers brought the news to Galveston, Texas that they were free. The news came two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
