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‘Celebrate love and beauty’: Antioch marks Juneteenth with music, joy and unity
LAUGHTER AND DANCING filled the Williamson Ranch Park at the fourth annual Antioch Juneteenth celebration this weekend. On Friday evening, hundreds of Antioch residents, local artists, and advocacy organizations came to commemorate Union soldiers traveling to Texas on June 19, 1895, to let enslaved people there know that they were emancipated — two years after […] The post ‘Celebrate love and beauty’: Antioch marks Juneteenth with music, joy and unity appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, ‘Celebrate love and beauty’: Antioch marks Juneteenth with music, joy and unity, LAUGHTER AND DANCING filled the Williamson Ranch Park at the fourth annual Antioch Juneteenth celebration this weekend. On Friday evening, hundreds of Antioch residents, local artists, and advocacy organizations came to commemorate Union soldiers traveling to Texas on June 19, 1895, to let enslaved people there know that they were emancipated — two years after […] The post ‘Celebrate love and beauty’: Antioch marks Juneteenth with music, joy and unity appeared first on Local News Matters .
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