“Give us, us free!” are the infamous words cried repeatedly by Cinqué as he stood up from his courtroom seat in the movie Amistad.
Yet, these cries for freedom finally rang true on June 19th, 1865 in Galveston, Texas which marked the ending of slavery in the United States as Juneteenth serves as the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration.
Fast forward 154 years and mix in fistfuls of discrimination, racial profiling, and police brutality and ask yourself, “Are we truly free, or simply Free-ish?
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