Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The holiday marks the date in 1865 – more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation – that Major General Gordon Granger and 2,

"Even though it took them 2 years later to get it and we'll be able to celebrate that and we'll share that history, especially in today's climate where our politicians are trying to erase the history of the Afro-Americans,