HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Manoa Valley Theatre concluded its week-long inaugural Juneteenth festival Saturday.
Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when the last of the country’s enslaved people found out they were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was passed.
It serves as a reminder for some to celebrate freedom and Black joy…