Last week, community members and families joined the city of Kyle and the newly founded Kyle Cultural Awareness Group in celebrating their first ever Juneteenth event at Wallace Middle School.

A little history on the holiday that might not be commonly known is that on June 19, 1865 a Union Army major announced to Texas that slavery had ended two and a half years previously. June 19, or Juneteenth, is now considered one of the most popular annual celebrations of the emancipation from slavery in t...