Station N°5 celebrates and observes 2025 Juneteenth, commemorating the day that Union soldiers (finally) informed freedpeople in Galveston, Texas that they were, indeed, free. President Abraham Lincoln formally signed the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1, 1863; however, freedpeople in Galveston were informed two years later, on June 19, 1865. Though many Texans have been celebrating this day since then, Juneteenth became a U.S. federal holiday on June 17, 2021.