While the rest of the country is just now catching on, Juneteenth has always been a major holiday for the Black community in Texas and nobody..I mean NOBODY does it bigger or better than East Texas.
We are just hours away from the start of all the Juneteenth activities in East Texas and we're providing you with coverage of it all as we celebrate this important day in our history.
We're already super excited about everything going on for Juneteenth in East Texas and we just got word about another great event featuring a Texas hip hop legend!
Back when Galveston was a busy port with a booming commercial district, a hardware store owner named James Moreau Brown sold his business and bought a slave named Alek, who was a stone mason. In 1859, Brown, who soon became the fifth-richest man in Texas, and Alek began building a Victorian mansion...