By Micha Green AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com While the national holiday of Juneteenth commemorates the official day enslaved African Americans were freed and the announcement in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, Washingtonians celebrate true freedom in the spring, when slaves were emancipated in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. Three […]
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