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Here are 10+ ways to celebrate, things to do for Juneteenth this year in Louisville Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal
USA TODAY staff reads the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.
Juneteenth, is a combination of June and nineteenth, in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive.
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.
Juneteenth, is a combination of June and nineteenth, in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive.
There is no one reason why there was a 2-plus-year delay in letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the United States, according to Juneteenth.com. The historical site said some accounts place the delay on a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news, while others say the news was deliberately withheld.
A longing for second chances, a cross-culture love story set in the early 1940s and the legend of a folk hero will come together during the Kentucky Opera s Brown-Forman 2021-22 season.
The season kicks off in December with a special Holiday Celebration concert followed by Orfeo in February 2022 and An American Dream in April 2022. It closes with a Youth Opera Project production of Robin Hood in June of next year.
“We are excited to be back at the Brown Theatre to celebrate and gather with our community,” Barbara Lynne Jamison, Kentucky Opera’s general director and CEO, said in a news release announcing the new season. “The operas that we are producing this season allow us to celebrate being together again, and also to honor how this past year may have influenced our perspectives on the treasure of family and friendships, the value of belonging, and the importance of justice.”