Juneteenth observances kicked off this weekend across the states as many commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War.
across a variety of measures, including rates of maternal mortality, asthma, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease.
Festivities there include a multi-day festival including food, music, arts and crafts, and cultural exhibitions in a tree-lined park in the city’s medical district. The Memphis park once held an equestrian statue and the grave of slave trader and Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The statue and the body were moved in recent years.
“It is the independence of a people that were forced to endure oppression and discrimination based on the color of their skin,” Jones said.
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