There are several events in New Orleans for people to celebrate Juneteenth. On the New Orleans Lakefront, a celebration is being hosted by attorney Juan Lafonta that is free and open to the public ...

New Orleans marks Juneteenth with weighty, joyous festival in Congo Square Juneteenth Festival is in its sixth year in New Orleans. It featured around 70 vendors, free music and food.

New Orleans will honor Juneteenth this year with a lineup of events that celebrate Black history, artistry and liberation across the city.

New Orleans attorney Juan LaFonta’s free Juneteenth celebration There are three colors in the Pan-African flag that was created in 1920. The color black represents the diasporic people of Africa.

Giovonni Briggs, of the New Groove Brass Band, prepares to participate in a second line to kick off the annual NOLA Juneteenth Festival at Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans on Wednesday, June 19 ...

NEW ORLEANS — There are plenty of events popping up on Thursday, June 19th, to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday – the day all Americans were made truly free.

Ancestral Odyssey is a new immersive exhibition at the New Orleans African American Museum.

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

Celebrating Juneteenth in New Orleans Now, with federal recognition and for many, the day off, opportunities to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday have become more frequent.

Happy Juneteenth to all who celebrate, which god damn well should be all of us, damn it. Sing it, Mr. Hurt. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight ...

It’s the 53rd year the event has been celebrating the holiday, which fell on Thursday this year. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. June 19 of that year was when ...

In Harlem, a Juneteenth Celebration Revels in the Rhythms of Jazz Music and dancing filled the streets Thursday night as residents turned out for the fourth annual Big Band Jubilee.