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Today is Juneteenth, and on this day in 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

To delve more into the significance of this federal holiday, KCBS Radio news anchor Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with James Taylor, political science & African American studies professor at the University of San Francisco.