4: Why is Juneteenth important?

19/06/2020 10 min Episodio 4

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Angi talks about
-What Juneteenth is
-Why's it's so important and 
-How we can celebrate it this year and the many years to come!

Today is  independence day for people of African Descent , those that have ancestors that were enslaved. 
Today marks a day where many years ago, a union general by the name of Gordon Granger gave an order that officially ended the enslavement of people with a certain shade of skin color.

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