A year after Juneteenth became a federal holiday in the U.S., people gathered this weekend at events filled with music, food and fireworks.
A Fulton County school band plays during a Juneteenth parade on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in East Point, Ga. A visitor takes a photograph of the Absolute Equality Mural, which was unvailed last Juneteenth, with his cellphone, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Galveston, Texas. Galveston is the birthplace of Juneteenth, but has seen a steady decline in its Black population over the years. Kwesi Williams, of LA Street Poet Inc.
Lee, often referred to as the"Grandmother of Juneteenth" led her annual two-and-a-half-mile walk, representing the number of years after the Emancipation Proclamation before enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. The Juneteenth Flag flies over the state Capitol along with the American flag, the California State flag and the POW/MIA flag in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, June 19, 2022.
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