TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Hillsborough County officials and community leaders are kicking off the Juneteenth celebration with a flag raising Thursday.
The ceremony is taking place at the Frederick B. Karl County Center in Tampa at noon.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday commemorating the day the last slaves learned of their emancipation in Galveston, Texas, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation…