Tomorrow 6\/19 is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day. On June 19, 1865, Union General\u00a0Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas \u2013 home of the most remote enslaved people in the United States \u2013 to spread the word that the Civil War had ended and enslaved Black people were free. This happened two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n
It is a reminder to all of us that none of us are free until all of us are free.<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneteenth has long been a day of celebration, education, and community for Black people in America \u2013 and we\u2019re encouraged to see it get the recognition it deserves as a new federal holiday. We also recognize that the struggle is not over \u2013 and that the road to a more just, equitable, and sustainable future is long and uneven. It is a reminder to us all that, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr.,\u00a0 none of us are free till all of us are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow 6\/19 is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day. On June 19, 1865, Union General\u00a0Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas \u2013 home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19961\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}