WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Juneteenth may officially be Friday, but people in Wichita have been celebrating all week.
On Thursday, organizers with Spoken Word Productions invited the community to remember the purpose of the holiday through a night of music, poetry and live painting.
Juneteenth signifies the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, which happened more than two years after the proclamation was put into effect. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, to tell more than 250,000 enslaved people in the state that they were free.
Now, Scott Moore, the founder of Spoken Word Productions, says Juneteenth is about sharing and celebrating African American culture and legacy…