Demonstrations, prayers and cultural celebrations of food and music will enliven communities from New York to Los Angeles to honor the day in 1865 when a Union general proclaimed in Galveston, Texas that all slaves were free. Some 155 years after the demise of the pro-slavery Confederacy, several tragedies have led the country into a reckoning on race.source https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-marks-juneteenth-end-of-slavery-amid-tensions-over-racist-past/articleshow/76459436.cms
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