Author: Rev. Dr. Demetrius Lawrence Sr.

June 2025, New York, NY…, Juneteenth, which is celebrated every year on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American History – the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word of their emancipation, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. It is a celebration of freedom,…