Black arts and community leaders have come together to host a large Juneteenth Festival.
From June 17 to 20, festival events will include live music, a family day, a farmer’s market, awards, a food truck festival, poetry and a drive-in movie, organizers announced in a news release.
Juneteenth is a celebration of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received word, two years after the Civil War had ended, that they had finally received their freedom.
This is the first time there has been a combined Juneteenth effort in the city. Organizers plan to continue to build the festival year after year.
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