The year in photos: Dispatch photographers share favorite images
Brooke LaValley, Photo Editor blavalley@gannett.com Juneteenth: A celebration amid pain On June 19, demonstrators blocked off High Street between Broad and State streets Downtown, as they had done during daily protests over George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, but this day was a celebration. A DJ set up on the Statehouse grounds and people were dancing. Someone even was grilling burgers and hot dogs, and giving them away during a Juneteenth celebration. Later in the evening, people were setting off fireworks in the middle of the street and it seemed as if they were bouncing off the buildi...