Juneteenth, the holiday marking the official end of slavery is celebrated annually on June 19, but became recognized as a federal holiday a few years back.

We’re popping up in your inbox a day early as we observe Juneteenth this week. There are a dozen different ways to celebrate and commemorate the national holiday marking the date when — two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation — news of the end of slavery finally broke across plantations in and around Galveston,