Juneteenth celebrations are happening across the country this weekend, and the festivities are just getting started at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Uptown.
Organizers say it’s about more than a day off. It’s about honoring resilience and freedom.
Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed…