Juneteenth celebrated on Long Island with stories honoring the past, reminders of a changing political present

In Lloyd Harbor, at a former plantation, visitors honored Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man who lived and worked there in the 18th century and was one of the first published African American writers.

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