Wednesday, June 9, 10 a.m.
Live stream
President Abraham Lincoln announced the end of slavery in 1862, but it wasn’t until two-and-a-half years later on June 19, 1865, that the news finally reached enslaved people in Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native Annette Gordon-Reed chronicles the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. Free, 415-597-6705, commonwealthclub.org
