Celebrating Juneteenth and Black Americans’ Contributions to Medicine
By Remedy Health | March 23, 2021
What is Juneteenth? Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing those held as slaves, on January 1, 1863. It took an additional 2.5 years beyond that for the last enslaved people to be freed in Galveston, TX. June 19, 1865 – Juneteenth – is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of the actual […]