You are invited to join Constituting America for a Zoom presentation this Saturday night about Juneteenth, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13^th Amendment. The special guest for this edition of “Constitutional Chats” is Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper.

Horace has taught constitutional law at the George Mason University School of Law and was a legal counsel to congressional leadership. And for over 20 years, members of the Project 21 black leadership network have sought to educate people about Juneteenth and its importance in helping black Americans understand the value of education, self-reliance and the need to embrace American opportunity and exceptionalism.

Juneteenth commemorates the anniversary of the June 19, 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas. The soldiers brought with them news of the end of the Civil War two months earlier and how President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery two and a half years earlier. Galveston’s former slave population began celebrating its freedom annually on the anniversary of this day.

Juneteenth grew to become a motivating and stabilizing commemoration for black Texans experiencing the uncertainties associated with their newfound freedom and a full integration into American society. It is now observed nationally.

Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over 25 years, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Its members have been quoted, interviewed or published over 40,000 times since the program was created in 1992.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.

• The Free Enterprise Project (FEP), the liberty movement’s only full-service shareholder and activism group that’s effective in pushing corporate America to the right;
• Project 21, the liberty movement’s only public relations agency for black conservatives and libertarians that has already created over 40,000 media opportunities;
• The Environment and Enterprise Institute (EEI), which counters misinformation being spread by the environmental left.