Gov.
Newsom said it's a reminder that 155 years later, Black Americans are still feeling the impacts of government-sponsored racism.
Gov.
Newsom said it's a reminder that 155 years later, Black Americans are still feeling the impacts of government-sponsored racism.
For the first time in Wisconsin history the Juneteenth flag flew at the state Capitol.
The holiday commemorates the moment on June 19, 1865, when a Union general informed slaves in Texas of the 1862 Emancipation..