Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Monday, the 19th

of June, 2023.

Today, America commemorates June 10th.

Plus how black Americans are fighting to preserve their history in Silicon Valley.

When we look at the role climate change is playing on the country's beaches.

Today is June 10th.

When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863,

to free black Americans, it took time for a word to spread.

And it initially could not be enforced in secessionist states still under Confederate

control.

According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, it wasn't until

two years later that major general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to proclaim

that more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free.

Today is the second year that June 10th, also known as America's second Independence Day,

will be commemorated as a federally recognized holiday.

Black Americans are fighting to preserve their forgotten history in Silicon Valley.

I spoke with USA Today's senior reporter Jessica Gwynn about one man, Roy Clay Senior, and

about what's being done to preserve stories like his.

Welcome back to five things, Jessica.

Thank you so much for having me.

So first, can you just tell us a little bit about Roy Clay Senior and his impressive Silicon

Valley career?

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