The Day I Remember - A Juneteenth Story

Galveston, Texas. June 19, 1865.

Seven-year-old Ezra is walking through the morning with his mother when horses come over the rise. A Union officer reads from a paper. The world he was born into ends - and a new one begins.

In The Day I Remember, Lamont Spence brings the first Juneteenth to life through the eyes of a child who suddenly understands what he is witnessing without being told. Ezra hears the bells. He sees his mother drop her basket of red beans. He learns to dance. He drinks some...