Boston's Juneteenth celebration will be held on Saturday, June 21 at Franklin Park. Picnics, barbecues, music and dancing are planned at Shattuck Picnic Grove and all around the park.

As Americans marked the weekend heading into Monday’s Juneteenth holiday in varying ways, the mood in Greater Boston was decidedly a celebratory one.. Deemed a state holiday in 2020 and a ...

Here are just five of the many ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Boston this year: Embrace Ideas Festival. In a week-long festival leading up to Juneteenth, King Boston is highlighting and uplifting ...

Juneteenth Boston: Black Joy. Hosted by the New Democracy Coalition in collaboration with the City of Boston, Juneteenth Boston celebrates Black history, democracy, and freedom.

Boston celebrated Juneteenth on Sunday with a parade through Roxbury, as the community commemorated the day when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom more than ...

Boston celebrates Juneteenth with flag-raising, parade through Roxbury. Story by Helena Getahun-Hawkins • 11mo. U ndeterred by sweltering temperatures, hundreds marched in Roxbury Wednesday from ...

17 Dance Parties, Protests, Poetry Readings and More to Mark Juneteenth in Boston Tune into a Zoom webinar or take to the streets. By Alyssa Vaughn · 6/17/2020, 5:09 p.m.

Traditionally, community barbecues and block parties have been organized to mark the historic day. One of the first large Juneteenth events in Boston began in the 1990s when a group of Roxbury ...

Embrace Boston is hosting the Embrace Ideas Festival this week, designed to coincide with other Juneteenth celebrations. “Embrace [Boston’s] work is to think about the ways in which monuments ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Juneteenth, a blend of the words June and nineteenth, honors June 19th, 1865. It's the day General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas to announce the end of the Civil War and ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. The order provided by Union Major General Gordon Granger abolished slavery in the country ...