With Miss Juneteenth, Peoples has fashioned both a vivid portrait of a community—this is a place where civic and Black pride mesh inextricably—as well as a drama in the classic mode of the woman’s ...

Each year on June 19th, the United States pauses to commemorate Juneteenth, the date in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom, more than two ...