Growing up in America as a Black person comes with a lot of complicated feelings. Sometimes it can feel like there’s a lack of community, especially when we make up only about 4% of the San Diego County’s population and about 5% of California’s overall population.
That’s why Juneteenth is such a big deal for the community. It’s a day for us to come together and celebrate freedom, and a time to recognize that there are still real equity and justice challenges today.
On June 19, 1865, U.S Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that all enslaved people were free under the Emancipation Proclamation…