With Juneteenth arriving tomorrow on June 19th… we all can commemorate the occasion! If you enjoy Gospel Musuc, then I have a show tomorrow for you.

JUNETEENTH: June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas were told they were free, and 150 years later, people across the U.S. continue to celebrate the day. We hope you can join the gospel choir with John on Crosscurrents, Monday June 19 at 800 AM. Listen live at www.KRNN.org, 102.7fm, or 103.1fm.

Here is a three minute gospel music mix as a preview of tomorrow’s show. Listen live at www.KRNN.org, 102.7fm, or 103.1fm.

June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas were told they were free. A century and a half later, people across the U.S. continue to celebrate the day, which is now a federal holiday.

That was 156 years ago. Here are the basics of Juneteenth that everyone should know.What Juneteenth representsFirst things first: Juneteenth gets its name from combining “June” and “nineteenth,” the day that Granger arrived in Galveston, bearing a message of freedom for the slaves there.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that many former slaves did not stay on the plantations as workers and instead left in search of new beginnings or to find family members who had been sold away.”It immediately changed the game for 250,000 people,” Shane Bolles Walsh, a lecturer with the University of Maryland’s African American Studies Department.

To quote lecturer Walsh, “….It’s about empowerment and hopefulness.”

SOURCE: New York Times and National Public Raddio