Juneteenth (today) marks the anniversary of the day in 1865 when federal officials arrived in Texas to inform approximately 250,000 previously enslaved people there that they were finally free and to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, even though Emancipation had been declared more than two years prior to that day.
There are ongoing efforts to have the day designated as a federal holiday, and yet there are still so very many in this nation who are not familiar with it or have never heard of it at all.
The 13th Amendment may have been ratified more than a century ago, but it did not put an end to the oppression of Black people in many different forms, or to the systemic supremacy of whiteness.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/juneteenth-celebration-meaning-explainer