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Saturday, Houston’s Emancipation Park Conservancy is welcoming everyone to their annual Juneteenth celebration. It kicks off with a Freedom Walk at 7am and ends with a concert. Today at 1pm on Houston Life, Melanie Camp is out at Emancipation Park in the Third Ward to tell us more about this fun event.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War.