LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — While rooted in a single milestone moment, Juneteenth carries a significance that extends well past June 19, 1865.
When Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, on that day, they delivered word that slavery had ended; however, that news came over two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Yet for countless Black Americans, liberation was less an instant event than a long and unfolding reality…