“That is my family on the wall behind me,” Loretta Holloway, South Carolina’s official First Lady of Song, exclaimed as she beamed with pride in the hot Juneteenth sun at Unity Park in Greenville Wednesday. The wall behind her featured a mural dedicated to her ancestors, Elias Brown and Hattie Jordan Holloway. Community members kick-off […]
Communities across the state and nation are holding events to celebrate the oldest Black holiday in the country. Juneteenth celebrates the freedom and emancipation of enslaved Black people in America. The name Juneteenth refers to June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people learned about their newfound freedom from federal troops who arrived in Galveston, Texas. […]
Jun. 16—Rainbows need clouds and light to exist; one to dissipate, the other to shine. By midday Saturday, the rainbows of the 2024 Pride Parade and Festival saturated downtown Manchester on a nearly cloudless day. Drawing more than 3,000 people and 150 vendors to Veterans Memorial Park, the celebration provided the visibility vital for the […]
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WDHN) — Hundreds of residents were battling the heat participating in and watching the Annual Juneteenth Parade in Enterprise. The parade rolled through Main Street on Saturday afternoon. The Annual Juneteenth Parade was held to celebrate and acknowledge the Juneteenth “Freedom Day” federal holiday. Juneteenth, is a day of remembering the horrible time […]
By air, by land and by lake, supporters and opponents of Donald Trump flocked to metro Detroit on Saturday to get their message out. A “Make America Great Again” Boat Parade, organized to coincide with the former president’s 78th birthday, which was Friday, flooded Lake St. Clair with red, white and blue through the afternoon. […]
HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) — Juneteenth celebrations have been taking place in New York City all month ahead of the federal observation of the day this Wednesday. Hundreds of people gathered for an annual event to mark the holiday on Saturday. The event, the 31st annual Juneteenth celebration, started with a parade in Harlem and culminated […]
By air, by land and by lake, supporters and opponents of Donald Trump flocked to metro Detroit on Saturday to get their message out. A “Make America Great Again” Boat Parade, organized to coincide with the former president’s 78th birthday, which was Friday, flooded Lake St. Clair with red, white and blue through the afternoon. […]
Jun. 15—With thousands of rainbow flags flying, Portland’s Pride parade traversed the city’s downtown streets — and participants danced, strutted, waved, drove motorcycles, and even roller-skated and rode unicycles by the crowd. Saturday’s parade featured full sun, temperatures in the 70s and a light breeze. With ideal weather conditions, thousands packed the sidewalks so densely […]
It was 1994 when a handful of organizers created the Delaware Juneteenth Association ― not just to celebrate Black history, but also armed with a mission statement to develop programming to address problems in the community. Thirty years later, the organization is continuing to grow and hosted its largest annual event on Saturday: the Juneteenth […]
After saying she would not file a police report, the victim of an investment banker’s attack after Brooklyn’s Pride celebration June 8 has come forward to lodge a complaint with the NYPD over the vicious punch. The woman, who identified herself as Micah P. when she spoke to NBC 4 New York on Tuesday told […]
Jun. 14—The Pride parades in Albuquerque and Clovis took place in the first week of June, serving as an entry point to Pride Month. As is the case in many respects, Santa Fe does things a bit differently. Santa Fe’s Pride on the Plaza, held June 29, is one of the culminating events of a […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A sea of Puerto Rican flags covered Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, as the sixth annual Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade took place. “The music, the food, the atmosphere, it’s amazing,“ Tais Lopez told PIX11 News. The neighborhood came alive with thousands of people supporting the dancers, the parade floats, […]