Parties and proclamations: Juneteenth across the diaspora

While Juneteenth has become the most famous celebration marking the end of slavery, it is far from the only one

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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I'm Adria R Walker, a Mississippi-based race and equity reporter for the Guardian US, and I'm excited to be taking over this week.

I've been working on a story about the ways Black American communities have celebrated - in many cases, for centuries - the formal end of slavery, which is variously called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and, perhaps most famously, Juneteenth.