From festivals to virtual presentations, cities throughout South Florida will be honoring and celebrating Juneteenth.
Recognized annually on June 19, the holiday honors the abolition of slavery in the United States and marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 with news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free — two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that had become official Jan. 1, 1863, according to Juneteenth.com.