The U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world: with 5% of the world’s population, we have nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners. The U.S.
Juneteenth is a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved Africans. On June 19, 1865, two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, news reached Texas and parts of the southwest that freedom had come.
