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Thursday is Juneteenth, and there are plenty of events in the Twin Cities providing opportunities to celebrate, learn and come together.
Sanford and Orlando Entertainment hosts a Juneteenth block party at the Sanford Riverwalk with live music, food, dancing, arts and crafts. The free festival is from 4-9 p.m. June 21 at 401 E. Seminole ...
North Minneapolis’ Bethune Park is actually the origin of Minneapolis-area Juneteenth celebrations dating to the 1980s. Theodore Wirth Regional Park became a hotspot for celebrations in the 1990s.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday Thursday marking the day when slaves in Texas were told about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it had been announced.
Stacker collected images of Juneteenth celebrations over the years that showcase how the holiday has changed, from 1970 to 2024.
The community of West Broadway in Minneapolis celebrated Juneteenth with their annual block party stretching from Lyndale to Emerson Avenues North. Only a mile and a half from where the ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they'd been freed. To mark the holiday, Juneteenth was created ...
Members of Rondo Double Dutch show how to jump rope during the Soul of the Southside festival for Juneteenth at Hook and Ladder Theater in Minneapolis Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Photo by Nicole ...
In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area this Juneteenth holiday, post offices, banks, government offices, libraries and schools will be closed, but retailers will be open.
MINNEAPOLIS — Madam Juneteenth honored Black women ages 31-39 in Minnesota's second annual pageant. Sannia Elzia, a small business owner and Mendota Heights resident, was crowned June 7 as the ...
Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week. Here's everything to know.