Juneteenth is often told as an American story. But it’s been celebrated for generations in Corina Torralba Harrington’s hometown in Mexico by descendants of Black Seminoles.
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ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
This week, on June 19, communities across the U.S. will celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 that the last enslaved people in the U.S., in Texas, learned that slavery had been abolished, that they were free. Corina Torralba Harrington always celebrated this day with her family growing up in northern Mexico.
CORINA TORRALBA
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