On June 19, 1865 — two months after the Civil War had ended — more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were freed.
The newly emancipated responded with cries of joy and prayers of gratitude, a celebration that became known as Juneteenth. washingtonpost.com/history/intera…
Black Texans marked Juneteenth each year with parades and picnics, music and fine clothes. wapo.st/3iQsFI2
The Juneteenth gatherings grew through the aborted promise of Reconstruction, through racial terror and Jim Crow, and through the Great Depression, with a major revival in the 1980s and 1990s. wapo.st/3iQsFI2
Listen to the drumline at the 2017 Iowa City Juneteenth Celebration: wapo.st/3iQsFI2
But why celebrate nationally something that happened in a single state?
As Black Texans moved across the U.S., they brought their day of jubilation with them. Embracing that day has become a fitting way to mark the end of a war fought to preserve slavery. washingtonpost.com/history/intera…
At the start of the Civil War, these states still had legalized slavery. Some were border states that remained loyal to the Union. In New Jersey, a gradual abolition law passed in 1804 — so gradual that the 1860 U.S. Census counted 18 people as “slaves.” wapo.st/3iQsFI2
Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. Nine months later, on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared enslaved people in the Confederacy forever free — though slavery remained in effect on the ground. wapo.st/3iQsFI2
Enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation generally followed battle lines, encompassing all of the Confederacy except Texas by the end of the war.
Four states abolished slavery before the end of the war: Maryland, Missouri, the new state of West Virginia and Tennessee.
Juneteenth: On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Tex., Granger issued General Order No. 3, freeing all enslaved people in Texas, in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation issued two and a half years earlier. wapo.st/3iQsFI2
The 13th Amendment banning slavery was officially proclaimed on Dec. 18, 1865, after enough states had ratified it on Dec. 6. By then, the only enslaved people waiting to be freed were in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey. wapo.st/3iQsFI2
In early Juneteenth celebrations, freed men and women were invited to recount the horrors of slavery and the sweetness of freedom.
“This was partying with purpose — not only for the people to join the celebration but to learn directly from the past.” washingtonpost.com/history/2020/0…
Juneteenth has taken on a symbolic national reverence as the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached Texas, but, in reality, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t end slavery, and neither did the Civil War.
Here are 3 myths about its history.
Last summer, amid the racial-justice protests following the murder of George Floyd, millions of White Americans became aware of Juneteenth for the first time.
Goods from nations with which the U.S. does hundreds of billions of dollars of trade, such as India, Switzerland and South Africa, will see new taxes of up to 39 percent, with India’s rate set to jump to 50 percent in three weeks.
Tariffs are like a sales tax applied at the border to an importer.
They're an opportunity to raise public revenue and can theoretically incentivize domestic production and protect certain industries from being undercut by foreign competitors.
President Trump announced full bans on 12 countries and partial bans on seven others on Wednesday. They are set to go in effect on June 9.
Here’s what you need to know:
The countries with a full ban are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
While Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela are affected by a partial ban.
How were the countries with travel bans selected? Trump said it’s in the interest of national security, writing that the U.S. must ensure those admitted to the country “do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.”
As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Putin accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout.
He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to “War,” a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Four years later, the personal relationship between the two men appears to have persisted, Woodward reports, as Trump campaigns to return to the White House and Putin orchestrates his bloody assault on Ukraine.
Mark Robinson, the firebrand Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, has for years made comments downplaying and making light of sexual assault and domestic violence. wapo.st/3KQffZ6
A review of Robinson’s social media posts over the past decade shows that he frequently questioned the credibility of women who aired allegations of sexual assault against prominent men, including Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. wapo.st/3KQffZ6
In one post, Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, characterized Weinstein and others as “sacrificial lambs” being “slaughtered.” wapo.st/3KQffZ6
Exclusive: A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
The Post conducted an exclusive analysis of the nation’s most comprehensive database of police crimes.
From 2005 through 2022, reporters identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
Police and court documents show that abusive officers frequently spent months befriending and grooming kids.
Many used the threat of arrest or physical harm to make their victims comply. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
Exclusive: For decades, Catholic priests raped or molested Native American children who were taken from their homes by the U.S. government and forced to live at remote boarding schools, a Post investigation found. wapo.st/3yB2VZT
At least 122 priests, sisters and brothers assigned to 22 boarding schools since the 1890s were later accused of sexually abusing Native American children under their care, The Post found. wapo.st/3yB2VZT
Most of the documented abuse occurred in the 1950s and 1960s and involved more than 1,000 children.
Experts say the The Post’s findings are a window into the widespread sexual abuse at Indian boarding schools. wapo.st/3yB2VZT