Americans from coast to coast celebrated Juneteenth this weekend, taking to the streets to commemorate the end of slavery after the Civil War.
, in his final sermon at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, that the holiday is not a time for merriment.“It was a terrible day,” Barber said. “For it was a day folk found out they had been lied to. They got two extra years of bondage. When they found out, they were not happy. They decided that now we gotta fight, sure enough, for full citizenship.”
Acknowledging today's circumstance, the Rev. Lorn Snow of Detroit said at Sunday Mass:"The struggle’s still not over with. There’s a lot of work to be done." The Buffalo Soldiers Honor Guard at the Arizona Diamondbacks' Juneteenth celebrations before a game against the Cleveland Guardians in Phoenix on Friday.Line dancers at a neighborhood Juneteenth festival in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.From left: Kennedy Gibbs, 12, Karinne Gibbs, 8, and Anthony Gibbs, dressed in period clothing, play badminton at the Juneteenth Jubilee Day Festival in the Ohio Village on the grounds of the Ohio History Center in Columbus on Sunday.
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