The Dunbar Heritage Association will host a community Juneteenth Celebration Sunday, June 19 from 2-7 p.m. at Dunbar Park, located at 801 Martin Luther King Drive.
“The theme this year is fathers, family, and freedom, so we are going to be honoring fathers,” said Alex Banbury, president of the Dunbar Heritage Association. “One thing that’s important about the DHA is that we will always celebrate Juneteenth on the 19th, whatever day the 19th falls on. This year it happened to land on Father’s Day.”
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally-celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which became effective Jan. 1, 1863, freeing slaves in the Confederate States.
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