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Community celebrates Juneteenth, freedom at annual event June 21

“Freedom Day” arrived in Texas more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Juneteenth remains an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States of America. It was on June 19, 1865, that Union General Gordon Granger reiterated the order than all enslaved people were free, and the date

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