2026-06-19
24 分钟Hi, everyone.
It's Gideon.
Our team is off today for Juneteenth, but we're bringing you something special in place of our usual daily show,
a narrated article from Texas Monthly that we're making free for everyone.
An award-winning historian and professor takes us back to 1865 to tell the true story of Juneteenth,
a story that's been oversimplified over the years,
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Written by Peniel Joseph for Texas Monthly.
Narrated by Dionne Graham for Apple News Plus.
My first memories of Juneteenth began in church.
I grew up in a predominantly black section of Jamaica in the New York City borough of Queens.
Our small congregation at New Bethel Baptist Church consisted of Caribbean immigrants, such as my Haitian-born mother,
native-born New Yorkers, such as me, and migrants from across the South, including Texas.
As new parishioners arrived, they transplanted their food, culture, and folkways into our church rituals and traditions.
My mother prided herself on the excellence of her Haitian cooking,