The Akron Urban League, The Freedom BLOC and the Akron NAACP partnered on the Stronger Together Juneteenth celebration Saturday at the Urban League’s headquarters on Vernon Odom Boulevard in Sherbondy Hill.
The event featured food trucks, live performances, local vendors, kids’ activities and health and wellness resources for attendees.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day, June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of their emancipation, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation giving enslaved people their freedom…