word didn't reach the enslaved folks in galveston, texas, until june 19th of that year. and so black folks in america have celebrated juneteenth ever since. but very few americans outside the black community had ever heard of the holiday, because america has a long history of erasing the brutality that blocks folks have always been subject to. and as you know, this year marked the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. while it got reflection it deserved, tulsa was not an isolated incident and an isolated event. black americans lived under the constant threat of lynching and race massacres for generations, and that reality is rarely studied in any depth in american history classes before post-graduate level. the newest attempt to stop the
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