The rest of America is finally discovering Juneteenth.
The holiday has been a secret-in-plain-sight for 155 years. African Americans have always known about it and have often celebrated it.
It is America's second Independence Day.
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger stood on a balcony in Galveston, Texas, and read General . . .
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