On Juneteenth, we honor the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation had declared it so. This delay is not just a historical footnote—it is a stark reminder of how freedom has always been unevenly distributed in this country, especially for Black people, and still is for many others who labor in the shadows of our economy.