MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — For the fifth straight year, the Juneteenth flag is flying over the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Community members and leaders gathered in Madison for the flag raising ceremony Tuesday.
June 19 marks “Juneteenth” which became a federal holiday in 2021. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S., in Galveston, Texas, received word of the Emancipation Proclamation, more than two and a half years after it was issued...
The Juneteenth Flag features a star to represent Texas, the Lone Star State; a nova, or new star, representing a new beginning and the freedom of African Americans; the curve on the flag dividing the red and blue colors representing a “new horizon” and a future of “opportunities and promise” for Black Americans; and red, white, and blue colors, reminding us that people who were enslaved and their descendants shall be “forever free.”
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