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This year, Newcity’s Big Heat feature focuses on those who stand behind the chef in the kitchen. We want to recognize the people who’ve succeeded big time, but we also want to recognize promising upstarts.
Juneteenth, a state holiday since last year, marks the date on June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell enslaved Black Americans they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.