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Across Minnesota and the entire country, Juneteenth will be celebrated with art, food, and community. Juneteenth — sometimes called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day — became an official Minnesota state ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday Thursday marking the day when slaves in Texas were told about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it had been announced.
Laughter, music, food and learning are all on the table for the upcoming Juneteenth events around Minneapolis. Juneteenth celebrates the day when more than 250,000 slaves were freed on June 19, 1865, ...
Four years ago, this south Minneapolis neighborhood was the charred epicenter of Minnesota’s racial reckoning. On Wednesday, residents gathered there to celebrate the legacy of Juneteenth and ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Juneteenth is right around the corner, and we've got the hook-up on celebrations. Here's everything you need to know about celebrating Juneteenth in the Twin Cities this year.
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. The holiday, which lands on June 19, marks the day that the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. It was more than two years after ...
Hundreds of people visited the Soul of the Southside Festival in Minneapolis to celebrate freedom on Juneteenth. “I acknowledge the only reason my parents were able to immigrate here is because ...
North Minneapolis’ Bethune Park is actually the origin of Minneapolis-area Juneteenth celebrations dating to the 1980s. Theodore Wirth Regional Park became a hotspot for celebrations in the 1990s.
Juneteenth marks the day more than 250,000 Black people were freed in the state of Texas by executive decree. ... “It’s not just in Minneapolis,” Bogan said.
Juneteenth, observed every June 19 to celebrate Black culture and commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S., ... The play was also presented in Minneapolis and Duluth last fall.
Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as ...
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