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For the second year since Juneteenth was made a federal holiday, New York City offers an exciting lineup of weekend events to commemorate June 19, 1865, the day the U.S. Army brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth is named for and celebrated every year on the day when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were emancipated on June 19, 1865. In 2021,