The two-day event pays homage to Black history through modern and traditional Black and African customs.
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Juneteenth: ‘A celebration of human respect and dignity’
Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 with his men and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the state’s 250,000 enslaved Africans and signaling an end to the Civil War, as explained by the Long Beach State Black faculty and staff community. Keith Claybrook, professor of[Read More…]