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The Richmond Arts and Culture Commission (RACC) and the Recreation and Parks Commission (RPC), is recommending the City Council approve a contract today for a $100,000 public art commission by Tiffany Conway and Ari Takata-Vasquez in Richmond’s John F. Kennedy Park. By Kathy Chouteau The Richmond Standard The Richmond Arts and Culture Commission (RACC) and the Recreation and Parks Commission (RPC), is recommending the City Council approve a contract today for a $100,000 public art commission by Tiffany Conway and Ari Takata-Vasquez in Richmond’s John F. Kennedy Park. The public art commiss...

Check out some fun things to do around Charleston including the Juneteenth Family Fest, line dancing lesson and a birthday bash.

It was on June 19, 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had become official, Major General Gordon Granger and his regiment of Union soldiers arrived at Galveston, Texas, and gave the news that the Civil War had ended, that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and the "enslaved were now and forever free.” June 19 became known as Juneteenth and in 2021, it became a federal holiday. Here are some of the observations being held ’round the Bay. | Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of ...

The kickoff celebration will be pushed into Juneteenth weekend