John RefiorHappy Flag Day!
The importance of Flag Day is basically none: it's trivial. So here's a story about Juneteenth, coming up in five days:
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth
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The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.