No./ 9 The beauty pageant with a difference
Aug 30, 2020
2 minutes
KATIE GOH
GROWING UP IN Texas, Juneteenth was part of life for Channing Godfrey Peoples. That date, June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Texas learned they were free, two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The celebrations led to Miss Juneteenth, a
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