‘There’s still a delay’: Rev. Horace Sheffield III on Juneteenth, America 250 and a freedom not yet finished

DETROIT (WLNS) — The United States is currently celebrating its 250th birthday, a commemoration of the Declaration of Independence and its promise that all men are created equal. Weeks before the Fourth of July is Juneteenth, a federal holiday only since 2021, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Read More