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Tomorrow, June 19—Juneteenth—marks the day in 1865 when enslaved Texans first learned about President Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which announced the end of slavery in the United States.
The recent events we’ve experienced as a community—the deaths of so many Black Americans at the hands of those who are sworn to serve and protect us—are disturbing and intolerable and call upon each one of us to reach deep down and ask, what more can I do?Ìý
Tonight we ask that we all extend our support for a few more minutes to commemorate the more than 100,000 victims of the coronavirus in the United States, as well as the thousands more people whose lives are lost every year to racial violence.
