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.
By Victor Omondi After a colorful ceremony in Freetown on April 29, 2021, some 59 African-Americans are now happy citizens of Sierra Leone, a West African country. “When President Bio signed my documents saying I’m officially Sierra Leonean, when I took my oath, and he gave me my passport … it was a surreal feeling,” […]
Fifty-nine African Americans are officially new citizens of Sierra Leone after a ceremony on April 29, 2021, in Freetown. “When President Bio signed my documents saying I’m officially Sierra Leonean, when I took my oath, and he gave me my passport … it was a surreal feeling,” said Prince Dynast Amir, an entrepreneur from Atlanta. President H.E. Dr. Julius Maada Bio gave each person their citizenship documents.
The ceremony was the inaugural one under a new partnership with African Ancestry, the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Monuments and Relics Commission and the Office of the President. This will be an ongoing program that gives African-Americans the opportunity to obtain citizenship in Sierra Leone when they prove their ancestral lineage through DNA. “We welcome you to acquire land, live in our communities, invest, build capacity and take advantage of business opportunities,” said President Bio during the ceremony.