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As America turns 250 in its birthplace, Dr. Darrin Anderson asks Philadelphia to keep freedom's promise within reach for every family.

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There is a particular kind of meaning to celebrating freedom in the month of June, in the year the United States turns 250. This is the month of Juneteenth, June 19, the day in 1865 when freedom finally reached the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is not simply a date. It is a reminder that freedom in America has always arrived unevenly, that it has had to be carried the last mile by the people still wait