To celebrate Juneteenth, elect officials focused on ending mass incarceration

Every year on June 19, Americans have the opportunity to commemorate Juneteenththe day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and liberate all enslaved people. This was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation; a gap between Abraham Lincolns pen strokes and actualized Black freedom that illustrates how there is often a pronounced delay between the official declaration of progressive outcomes and their concrete achievement.