Relevant Magazine

Juneteenth 2025: Why This Year’s Celebration Feels Different
Thursday, June 19, 2025Remember when Juneteenth used to feel like freedom? Not just the historical kind—the day in 1865 when Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. that they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation—but a lived, present-tense kind of freedom. For decades, Juneteenth…