<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Reflecting on a Belated Liberation
This year’s Juneteenth celebrations are inflected with a renewed sense of urgency.
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Juneteenth, as my colleague Vann R. Newkirk II put it, celebrates a “belated liberation.” On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freedom finally reached the
