Celebrate Juneteenth with variety of events

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This year marks the 32nd annual Juneteenth celebration in Springfield honoring the freedom, community, resilience and history of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the end of slavery after enslaved people in Texas were finally freed on June 19, 1865 – two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. In [...] The post Celebrate Juneteenth with variety of events appeared first on Illinois Times, the capital city's weekly source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture .