The Los Angeles Public Library and the Changing Tones Advisory Committee threw a jubilee celebration for Juneteenth at the Central Library on Thursday.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities.
It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed – after the end of the Civil war, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. READ MORE