Celebrate Juneteenth on Friday (6/19)
Orlando’s Juneteenth Celebration Friday (6/19) is coming
right on time and in step with nearly daily demonstrations in O-town to end
police brutality and systemic racism.
Activities will kick off with a car caravan and a freedom
walk with a rally near the bandshell at Lake Eola at 3 p.m., a block party in
the 600 block of West Pine Street near the soccer stadium at 4 p.m., and a free
screening of the critically acclaimed film “Just Mercy” in the plaza at Orlando
City Hall, starting at 8 p.m.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, is the oldest
nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United
States.
The Orlando event is one of 40 around the country being
held Friday by the Juneteenth Leadership Coalition that includes the Arc of
Justice; SEIU/32BJ; Until Freedom; The Gathering For Justice; The Indigenous
Peoples Movement; celebrities Yandy Smith and Kristen Scott; public officials
and activists including Tamika Mallory; Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr; the Rev.
Mark Thompson, and others.
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