‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee says efforts are being made to erase Black history

— also known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day and Emancipation Day — is celebrated on June 19 to mark the day in 1865 when African American slaves in Galveston, Texas, were among the last to be told they had been freed — a full two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery in the Confederacy and two months after the Civil continue reading …