This week Jonathan discusses the oldest celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery, and reads literature from W.E.B. Du Bois.

Topics: Juneteenth, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Souls of Black Folk

Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson - Public Domain, sound edited by Jonathan Swenson.

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