Across metro Atlanta and the rest of the country, people are celebrating Juneteenth on Thursday.
The holiday commemorates the day, June 19, 1865, that the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom through the Emancipation Proclamation.
Dr. Maurice Hobson, a historian and associate professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University, says celebrating Juneteenth in 2025 is just as meaningful as it was 160 years ago…