Juneteenth: Reflection, Commitment, and Action [positiveexperience.org]
By Chloe Yang, Dr. Robert Sege, and Dr. Dina Burstein, 6/19/20, positiveexperience.org/blog The art above is “Fireworks At Oak Bluffs,” scratchboard, by Sonia Lynn Sadler . Only 154 years ago today, the last enslaved people in the United States were told they were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued the following order in Galveston, Texas: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a...