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Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson

Happy second Juneteeth, as a National Holiday

Juneteenth — June 19th, 1865 — was a watershed moment for enslaved Americans. It marks the end of the Civil War (in Texas) and the emancipation of all the slaves who lived there. Yes, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed two and a half years before, but it did not free …