Usher is using his platform to talk about the importance of Juneteenth, specifically, why it should be recognized as an official national holiday.June 19 commemorates the true ending of slavery in the United States.
While Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn't until June 19, 1865, that General Gordon Granger and his Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and any enslaved people were freed by executive order.In an op-ed for published on Friday, Usher advocates to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
He also explains the T-shirt he wore back in 2015 at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, which had the words «July Fourth» crossed out and replaced with.
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