Juneteenth

On this episode of Out and About, producer Daniel Musisi sits in for host Jenn Gordon and is joined by Contemporary Art Center of Peoria executive director William Butler to discuss its Juneteenth Celebration.

Juneteenth is a celebration of the abolition of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19, 1865 when the news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally spread to Galveston, Texas in the old Confederacy.

The day that marks the anniversary of the day in 1865 when some of the last enslaved Americans learned that they had been freed is now an official state holiday in Illinois.