Oregon Events Honor Juneteenth 2025 with Music, Food and Reflection

South Euclid invites all to celebrate Juneteenth June 8 at the city’s food truck park

The city of South Euclid will hold its 5th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Day of Celebration Sunday, June 8 at the South Euclid Food Truck Park, located off Rushton Road. The event will feature live music, food trucks, a Family Fun Zone, and more.

Oregon events honor Juneteenth 2025 with music, food and reflection

Juneteenth, observed annually on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Long celebrated by Black communities as a day of freedom and reflection, Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 and was formally recognized by the state of Oregon in 2022.

Celebrate Juneteenth across Hampton Roads with events, ceremonies and festivals

Juneteenth, a federal and state holiday, is celebrated as America’s second Independence Day. While slavery ended for some with the President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, the news didn’t reach enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, until Union soldiers arrived and announced the end of the Civil War and slavery on June 19, 1865. Slavery across the United States was formally abolished with the 13th Amendment at the end of 1865…

Project Girl to host Juneteenth Freedom Festival in Lynnwood June 19 - Lynnwood Today

L-R: Olympia Edwards, founder and CEO of Project Girl Mentoring, with Lynnwood Mayor Christine Frizzell at the 2023 Juneteenth celebration. (File photo) Lynnwood-based nonprofit and mentoring group Project Girl will host a Juneteenth Freedom Festival on Wednesday, June 19. The event will celebrate the national holiday marking the day the last enslaved African Americans in Texas were informed of their freedom, which occurred more than two years a…