Why Didn't Anybody Teach Us About Juneteenth?

Two retired Army veterans, fathers, and Black men ask a simple question: How did we grow up in America and barely know anything about Juneteenth?

In this episode, Tommie and Lance talk about growing up Black in America in the Midwest...and neither of us remembers being taught much about Juneteenth.

Not in school.

Not in church.

Not in everyday conversations.

Years later, after discovering Juneteenth for ourselves, we started asking questions about what we knew, what we didn’t know, and why some parts of Black history seemed to receive far less attention than others.

In this episode of Four Titles, One Truth, we discuss our personal experiences learning about Juneteenth, what the holiday means to us today, how becoming a federal holiday changed public awareness, and why conversations about history still matter.

This isn’t a history lesson.

It’s an honest conversation between two Black men, fathers, husbands, veterans, and lifelong learners trying to understand a part of American history they wish they had known sooner.

In This Episode:

• Our first memories of hearing about Juneteenth
• Why neither of us learned much about it growing up
• Black history topics we remember being taught
• What changed after Juneteenth became a federal holiday
• Patriotism, service, and understanding history
• Why some stories are remembered and others forgotten

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