There are a number of celebrations coming up over the next week in the Piedmont Triad to commemorate Juneteenth.
Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a Union general arrived in Texas announcing enslaved Black people were free. That day, June 19, has been symbolic ever since.
In Greensboro, individuals can attend the fifth annual Juneteenth Black Food Truck Festival this Saturday in LeBauer Park to celebrate the holiday. It will include music, vendors and games for attendees. A ceremony will also take place to honor the late Pat Fortune, who brought the city its first festival celebrating the holiday in 1996…