Salt Lake Community College hosted its fourth annual Juneteenth Freedom Day Music Festival on June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. on the east lawn of the Taylorsville Redwood Campus.
This free event was more than just a music festival — it was a celebration of Black culture, history and resilience.
Juneteenth, officially recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last enslaved African Americans of their freedom, more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation…