Walking Toward Freedom: A Juneteenth Reflection from Los Angeles to Dallas

Walking Toward Freedom: A Juneteenth Reflection from Los Angeles to Dallas

I didn’t grow up celebrating Juneteenth. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, thousands of miles from Galveston, Texas—and a world away from the stories of delayed emancipation that Juneteenth honors. The textbooks didn’t mention it. The teachers didn’t teach it....