ALBANY — Hundreds of people attended the annual Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration in Albany’s Swinburne Park on Friday.
The event, sponsored by the Black Chamber of Commerce and the Albany Community Land Trust’s Gun Violence Prevention Program, was one of many slated for Albany and surrounding areas. It included live entertainment, vendors, food, cultural exhibits and family activities.
Juneteenth commemorates the day federal troops freed the last remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln. June 19, or Juneteenth, was declared a federal holiday in 2021…