SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR) — Drivers will want to be aware of upcoming street closures for downtown Syracuse due to Juneteenth celebrations.
According to a statement from the city government, the Syracuse Juneteenth Festival is coming back to Clinton Square on Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20, with a parade planned as well.
Juneteenth acknowledges when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were freed on June 19, 1865, following the abolishment of slavery and the end of the Civil War, despite the Emancipation Proclamation going into effect two years prior…