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Juneteenth celebration planned

WELSH — Everyone is invited to attend the 18th Annual Juneteenth Celebration hosted by Bethune and Richmond Park LTD this week.

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery and the announcement of freedom to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865 — more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The end of slavery in the South is honored annually with a Juneteen…

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