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Juneteenth, Inherited Patterns Lisane Basquiat Juneteenth, Inherited Patterns Lisane Basquiat

The News That Never Came | What Juneteenth teaches us about the patterns we are still living in — and the work only we can do

On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers rode into Galveston, Texas with a message two and a half years overdue. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed January 1, 1863. The war was over. The law had changed. More than 250,000 people were still living as enslaved — not because freedom hadn’t been declared, but because no one had come to tell them.

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