Today is Juneteenth, nationally observed.

I can’t say I know much about Juneteenth, and this mornings Heather Cox Richardson Letters to An American gives a good brief historical seminar.

Here’s a history from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.  Scroll down at this site for more links.

It appears that the Twin Cities main observance is on West Broadway, Minneapolis, today.

Search “Juneteenth” for more.

This seems an appropriate time to present an interview with my friend, Melvin Giles, in 2014.  (at the link, scroll down to Melvin Giles video).  Melvin was very involved in peacemaking actions in his St. Paul neighborhood and elsewhere.  The video was made in St. Paul by two Pakistani Fulbright scholars at the University of Minnesota