Vogue, “A Juneteenth Menu From Chef Klancy Miller”
I began celebrating Juneteenth in the summer of 2020. Even though my parents are unapologetically Black, from Georgia and Virginia, and I spent a large chunk of my childhood in the South, observing the holiday was not part of my family's traditions. Inspired by the call to consciousness amidst the George Floyd protests, I read about Juneteenth and learned that it began as a specific regional event in Galveston, Texas, to commemorate June 19, 1865. On that day, Union troops arrived to tell enslaved African Americans that the Civil War was over, Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, and they could not be held captive.
