DENVER — Thousands celebrated Juneteenth at the annual Juneteenth Music Festival in Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood on Sunday.
Juneteenth marks the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
But despite the condensed one-day event due to a decline in sponsorship, the spirit of the celebration was alive during one of the city’s oldest parades, which started at Manual High School and made its way down Welton Street…