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By Thomas Cathey | Special To The OBSERVER Nicole Mitchell, left, and Jamil Mitchell dance at a photo booth during the Sacramento Juneteenth Inc. Festival
On this Juneteenth, we are taking a closer look at California's connection to this federal holiday. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, California has a conflicted history of slavery and is now trying to right a wrong.
Juneteenth commemorations are kicking off in Sacramento on Friday, beginning a weekend-long celebration of the national holiday on Monday.
Juneteenth commemorates the day Texas slaves learned of their emancipation in 1865, and became a federal holiday in 2021.
Brenda Matthews’ story is a truth-seeking quest to right the wrongs perpetrated by a government hell-bent on doing ‘as they saw fit’ when it came to Aboriginal peoples, writes Sandra Phillips.