About Juneteenth in the Bay Area
Around the Bay Area, Juneteenth events are scheduled to take place and celebrate Black culture, with a focus on music, art and food.
Spanning Friday to Sunday, the holiday’s festivities will occur across the entire region, with headliner events taking place in Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco.
Juneteenth commemorates the day Union troops of the Civil War made their way to Galveston, Texas, declaring the Emancipation Proclamation to free the nation’s final enslaved people. Observed annually on June 19, Juneteenth became an official federal holiday in 2021, signed into law by President Joe Biden…