This past weekend, communities all across the country celebrated the lesser known American holiday, Juneteenth. This annual observance commemorates the word of emancipation coming to Texas. Union General Gordon Granger delivered the news to the residents of Galveston nearly two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation had gone into effect, on June 19, 1865. A portmanteau of ‘June’ and ‘Nineteenth’, the day on which the holiday is traditionally observed, Juneteenth is the ...