Jun. 20—LEWISBURG — The first of what organizers plan to be an annual Juneteenth Celebration was held in Hufnagle Park Wednesday. Kathryn Ehlo, of Montandon, brought her daughter Emily, 8. “I wanted her to be here, to see the joy of others acknowledging their heritage, the triumph of our ancestors, what they might have gone […]
The Juneteenth Celebration planned for Saturday in Diamond Park comes a few days after the actual Juneteenth holiday, which occurred Wednesday, but perhaps that’s appropriate. From a practical perspective, the weekend timing probably means that more people can enjoy the event. While Wednesday was a holiday for many, Juneteenth only became a federal holiday in […]
Downtown Jacksonville’s iconic Main Street Bridge – whose blue frame is illuminated nightly – featured a new, temporary lighting scheme on Wednesday as members of a local civil rights group came together to celebrate Juneteenth. Marking the June 19 federal holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, the Northside Coalition of […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Thousands celebrated Juneteenth in North Las Vegas Wednesday, three years after it was designated a federal holiday. It was a celebration steeped in culture at Craig Ranch Park for the F.A.I.T.H. Freedom Juneteenth Festival. “I appreciate them putting this on,” attendee Dorothy Wesley told 8 News Now. It was the second […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Juneteenth flag waved at the Colorado Capitol on June 19, commemorating the day Union soldiers marched to Galveston, Texas in 1866 to inform thousands of enslaved people that they were free. This is the third year Juneteenth has been celebrated in Colorado as an official state holiday. Colorado Springs marked Juneteenth […]
Wynton Butler, standing in the shade of a grove of trees Wednesday afternoon, posed a question. He asked the few dozen people sitting at picnic tables or standing in the grass in front of them to imagine that they were slaves who just learned that slavery had been abolished. But instead of leaving the slave […]
Swastikas and racial slurs were found painted on the sides of multiple vehicles in a working-class and largely Black and Latino east Phoenix neighborhood on Wednesday, Juneteenth, witnesses say. Celleste Murtagh went out her front door on Wednesday about 7 a.m. and was greeted with the unpleasant sight of her neighbor’s vehicle vandalized. The car, […]
Four years ago, the south Minneapolis neighborhood was the charred epicenter of Minnesota’s racial reckoning. On Wednesday, residents gathered there to celebrate the legacy of Juneteenth and Black liberation. Thousands convened at Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue for the annual Soul of the Southside Juneteenth Festival. The mission of the event is to showcase the […]
Jun. 19—NORWICH — Emmaneula Prempeh, president of the Norwich NAACP youth council looked out at the more than 40 people gathered at Wednesday’s Juneteenth ceremony at City Hall and thought that 159 years ago, such a gathering to celebrate freedom for Black people would have been “unfathomable.” Even her presence at the podium, a Black […]
Jun. 19—NEW LONDON — Parade Plaza rang out Wednesday afternoon with the sounds of drumming, laughter and song as dozens of guests celebrated Juneteenth and one of the city’s most respected matriarchs. The event, which recognizes the date in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, first learned they had been freed 2 1/2 years […]
Jun. 19—LIMA — A group used Juneteenth to perform public service Wednesday. Lima councilman Derry Glenn said it was exciting to see children participating in his Juneteenth event Wednesday.Councilman Thomas Jones joined in on the event at a home near Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, helping to plant flowers and lay mulch. “I think Councilman […]
Nearly 100 kids at the Overtown Optimist Club’s Juneteenth celebration jumped with excitement when a six-member Bahamian Junkanoo troupe marched into the gym. Wearing brightly colored ornate costumes, the band members handed out maracas to the crowd and invited them to join them for a conga line. Throughout Miami, Juneteenth moments like this conveyed the […]