There's a reason Houston takes Juneteenth personally. This isn't just a holiday observed here — it's a holiday that was built here.

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and read General Order No. 3, declaring that all enslaved people in Texas were free — more than two years after President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Some of the newly freed men and women walked north to Houston. And within just seven years, they had already begun...Read More