On a hot Sunday in Five Points, thousands of people strolled, shopped the marketplace, listened to music, ate good food and met new friends to celebrate freedom and culture during Denver’s annual Juneteenth music festival.
Juneteenth, typically celebrated on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed the freedom of slaves in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Launched in 2012, Denver’s Juneteenth festival honors Black culture, emancipation from slavery and the deep African American history for which the Five Points neighborhood is known…