Memphi Juneteenth News Today

Juneteenth celebrations are all set and underway to have a feature in multiple cities across the United States.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

Local Juneteenth events are growing across the U.S. now that its a federal holiday. Stacker created a list of 10 notable celebrations.

It’s a party that’s more than a century overdue. Memphis’ Juneteenth celebration will move from Robert R. Church Park to Health Sciences Park. To the place where a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest – a slave trader and Confederate general whose troops slaughtered surrendering Black troops at Fort Pillow 157 years ago – cast its shadow since 1904. That statue was removed in 2017. This month, the park was purged of Forrest’s remains and that of his wife. Just in time for the freedom fe...

The festival will take place in the park June 18 and 19. The Forrests remains are still in Health Sciences Park though the bronze equestrian monument honoring the once slave-trader who presided over the slaughter of Black Union Army soldiers was removed in December 2017.  The removal of the monument came after more than a year of protests lead by grassroots group #TakeEmDown901 and after a city council vote secured the sale of Health Sciences Park to Memphis Greenspace Inc. The sale allowed o...