The city’s Juneteenth parade moved through Richmond on Saturday morning before giving way to an afternoon festival at Nicholl Park, where organizers inducted six people into a newly created Juneteenth Hall of Fame and named the event’s first youth royal court.
On the main stage, Michelle Milam, crime prevention manager for the Richmond Police Department and a lead organizer of the event, presented awards to the year’s honorees before turning attention to the new Hall of Fame.
“Juneteenth is about celebration. It’s about remembering our past. It’s about celebrating our future,” Milam told the crowd. “But more than all that, Juneteenth is about remembering why we’re doing what we do.”…