A day to remember

Juneteenth is a US holiday about both uplifting the African American community and acknowledging a history that needs to be told, writes Lynn Brown

- Lynn Brown

The Emancipation Proclamation the act that freed enslaved African Americans after the US Civil War was signed in 1863, but implementing it was a much longer process. Despite the law, many people remained enslaved for years after the act was passed. It wasn't until the Union army marched into Texas on 19 June 1865 that all enslaved African Americans including those living in the furthest outpost of the Confederate army, Galveston, Texas - finally received word that they had been freed.