For longtime D.C. resident Adria Goosby-Gresholm, Friday marked her first visit to the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

She was there to commemorate Juneteenth, the federal holiday recognizing the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas finally learned they had been freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Goosby-Gresholm, a Black woman in her 60s, said it was important to celebrate the day across cultures.