The Young Professionals of Color of Greater Harrisburg celebrated this year’s Juneteenth holiday with a Juneteenth Jubilee event at Riverfront Park in Harrisburg.
The event is one of several sponsored by the organization in a weeklong celebration of “reclaiming economic power, radically reimagining what’s possible, and defining freedom on our own terms through business, culture, art, and music.”
Juneteenth is a federal holiday celebrating the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce all slaves had been free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation…