FLINT, MI – Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is next week, and communities across Michigan are getting ready to celebrate.
The federal holiday on Wednesday, June 19, marks the day in 1865 when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced to the enslaved people there they were free — two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
