20-06-2020 06:49 via sltrib.com

‘We’re bringing about change today’: Utahns gather to celebrate Juneteenth, protest racism in policing

When enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, got the news on June 19, 1865, that they were free, it was a day of celebration, a day for jubilee to mark the end of a life spent in servitude.Molly Farrell was there, and she and her mom left as soon as they heard. “Most everybody else go with us. We all walk down the road singing and shouting to the beat of the band,” she said in the book “A Black Women’s History of the United States.”On Friday in Salt Lake City — 1
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