Juneteenth celebrations in the Long Beach, South Bay and greater LA areas
Juneteenth is an African American holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, to remember the day when word finally came in 1865 to slaves in Galveston, Texas, that slavery had ended because of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. The annual observance, also known as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day and African American Independence…