President Trump issues message on Juneteenth

VCU Libraries Emancipation Day celebration in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905, Photo Date: 1905
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued a presidential message on Juneteenth in which he noted “the unimaginable injustice of slavery and the incomparable joy that must have attended emancipation.”“It is both a remembrance of a blight on our history and a celebration of our Nation’s unsurpassed ability to triumph over darkness.”Trump's message: “On this day 1