Texas African American hosts 4th annual Juneteenth festival

TAAM in Tyler hosts annual Juneteenth celebration

Freedom came late to Texas and to the nation as a formally recognized holiday, but it’s never gone uncelebrated. And in Tyler over the last week, celebrations have been aplenty.

Texas African American hosts 4th annual Juneteenth festival

Dozens of people showed out for today’s event with music, fun and even some trivia. There were even some awards handed out Thursday.

Texas African American Museum hosts fourth annual Juneteenth festival

Riverhead celebrates Juneteenth at the Butterfly Effect Project campus

The Riverhead community celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday with food, dance and fun at the Butterfly Effect Project’s campus on Main Road in Jamesport. Juneteenth — also known as Freedom Day and Jubilee Day — marks the date of June 19, 1865 when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger led troops into Galveston, Texas, to inform the people of Texas that slaves were freed by the Emancipation… Source