SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — This Saturday, Waterfront Park will be packed with people, food and music for an early celebration of Juneteenth. For organizers, it’s not too early to celebrate the history of their freedom.
“Juneteenth is not a Black American holiday. Juneteenth is an American holiday,” said Loren Cobbs, founder of SD Melanin.
June 19, also known as Juneteenth, marks the end of slavery in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, officially received the news that they were free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation…