A performer at the 2022 Juneteenth celebration at Henrico's Dorey Park. (Dave Pearson for the Henrico Citizen) Henrico County Recreation and Parks is inviting families to its 3rd Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Dorey Park on Saturday, June 17. Juneteenth is the country's newest federal holiday and commemorates the day June 19, 1865 when
Juneteenth marks the day when the last enslaved Black people in the U.S. learned they had been emancipated in 1865. It became a state holiday in 2019, and a city and federal holiday in 2021. WESA has curated a list of events happening this weekend and on the holiday.