June 17: Juneteenth Community Celebration at the Rocky Young Park at Pierce College, 6201 Winnetka Ave, Woodland Hills, from 1 to 6 p.m. Join for live music, games, dancing, vendors and more, hosted by BLMMonrovia and DayShift. at Monrovia Station Square Park, 1629 S Myrtle Ave. Info: June 17: 3rd annual Juneteenth Celebration, from 12 to 7 p.m. Join community groups and keynote speakers for a brunch to celebrate Juneteenth and launch the Center for Community Organizing and Southwest Mountain States Carpenters Union Local 323 South Los Angeles Training Facility. at the Community Coalition, 8101 Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 9 to 11 a.m. June 16: “Freedom Brunch Celebrating Power, Permanence & Progress” in South L.A. (File photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Sapphire Hodges, 8, of Los Angeles, poses in a mural during a Juneteenth celebration at Magic Johnson Park in Willowbrook on Friday, June 17, 2022. Here are some local Juneteenth events and community celebrations around the Los Angeles area, valleys, Long Beach and the South Bay. Los Angeles also made it a paid holiday for its city and county employees, and many offices, courts, libraries and schools are typically closed. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, with the signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act by President Joe Biden, and has since become a day to celebrate freedom, hope, and African American pride. It marks the formal end of slavery after the Civil War.īlack Americans have celebrated Juneteenth for generations, but it became more widely recognized after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020, which sparked a nationwide racial reckoning. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to the last enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas - more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
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