Henrico to celebrate Juneteenth with community event June 15

Henrico County will celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday, June 15 with a day of family fun and entertainment at Dorey Park in Varina. The event will include performances on two stages, an expanded vendor fair, historical and educational exhibits, a kids’ zone and fireworks. Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Day of Freedom, is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers delivered word to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas that they had been freed under President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863. They were the last...

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