Washington, D.C. – Juneteenth is a perfect opportunity to encourage community, self-improvement and American exceptionalism, say ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network. For 26 years, long before President Joe Biden and a combination of combatant and craven politicians co-opted Juneteenth for political purposes, Project 21 ambassadors have commemorated the anniversary of the June 19, 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas, who came bearing news that the Civil War was over and that the Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery two and a half years earlier. Galveston’s former slave population called the anniversary of that day “Juneteenth,” and it became a ...