What is Juneteenth?

Something I have always found interesting is the amount one can learn after having graduated from school. Of course, there is plenty to learn in school and there is only so much time to fit in mathematics, language arts, history and multiple other courses. Yet, just because those 12 years of school—if we’re not counting college or university—doesn’t mean that learning ever really stops.

Take for example something with such historical importance as the Emancipation Proclamation. This, of course, was the executive order that came from President Abraham Lincoln that effectively freed 3.5 million...