Melania Trump views Emancipation Proclamation with Ben Carson on eve of Juneteenth

First lady Melania Trump viewed the document that gives significance to Juneteenth after her husband ignited controversy over the day commemorating the end of slavery.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, the only black member of the president’s Cabinet, toured the National Archives with the first lady on Thursday. The duo viewed the Emancipation Proclamation, the Charters of Freedom, and General Order No. 3, the proclamation announced on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that all slaves were freed.