Four years ago, this south Minneapolis neighborhood was the charred epicenter of Minnesota’s racial reckoning. On Wednesday, residents gathered there to celebrate the legacy of Juneteenth and ...

Laughter, music, food and learning are all on the table for the upcoming Juneteenth events around Minneapolis. Juneteenth celebrates the day when more than 250,000 slaves were freed on June 19, 1865, ...

Juneteenth celebrations in Minneapolis go back to at least 1985, but 2023 is looking bigger than ever. Plenty of events in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota provide opportunities to celebrate ...

Thursday is Juneteenth, and there are plenty of events in the Twin Cities providing opportunities to celebrate, learn and come together. ... 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis; ...

Hundreds of people visited the Soul of the Southside Festival in Minneapolis to celebrate freedom on Juneteenth. “I acknowledge the only reason my parents were able to immigrate here is because ...

Juneteenth marks the day more than 250,000 Black people were freed in the state of Texas by executive decree. ... “It’s not just in Minneapolis,” Bogan said.

Juneteenth, observed every June 19 to celebrate Black culture and commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S., ... The play was also presented in Minneapolis and Duluth last fall.

North Minneapolis’ Bethune Park is actually the origin of Minneapolis-area Juneteenth celebrations dating to the 1980s. Theodore Wirth Regional Park became a hotspot for celebrations in the 1990s.

The Northside Juneteenth Weekend Celebration ended on Father's Day with a family friendly pool party. ... The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board waived those fees just a few years ago, in 2021.

Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week.. Although Juneteenth celebrations were documented as early as 1866, it wasn't officially ...

Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as organizers cite safety problems and mounting resistance to diversity, equity and ...