Organizers hope to welcome folks from beyond Newtown at the festivities.
Original Air Date: June 13, 2025
Host: This Thursday, June 19, is Juneteenth. It’s been a federal holiday since 2021, but the organizers of the celebrations in Sarasota moved the party to this weekend. To be precise: Saturday. We have the details.
Johannes Werner: Although the Emancipation Proclamation became effective on January 1, 1863, Black Americans deep in Confederate territory did not benefit until more than two years later. To the 250,000 slaves in Texas, freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay.
That’s what the Juneteenth celebration is about. In Sarasota, it will come five days early, on Saturday, June 14…