Columbus Juneteenth celebration is almost underway
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- Juneteenth is a holiday that’s oftentimes overlooked, but all that is changing. The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, and approval from the House of Representatives would make it one step closer to law. On June 19, 1865 union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to free more than 250,000 enslaved African Americans….