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Juneteenth Musical Celebrations This Weekend
People around the country will be celebrating Juneteenth this weekend, many with music! Check out some of this weekend's festivities:
JUNETEENTH: A Global Celebration of Freedom
Hollywood, California
San Francisco, California
Denver, Colorado
Fort Worth, Texas
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Montgomery, Alabama
Festival of Black Arts & Ideas: Juneteenth
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Kansas City, Missouri
Something In the Water Music Festival
Washington D.C.
Baltimore, Maryland
Juneteenth & 2nd Annual Historic Harlem Parks Festival
Harlem, New York
Juneteenth is a federally recognized holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. The date marks the anniversary of when the news reached soldiers in Texas nearly two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865. Learn more about Juneteenth here.