Community gathers in Paso Robles for fourth Juneteenth Jubilee • Paso Robles Press

Juneteenth celebration brings community together

More than 1,000 people of all ages filled Mary Henley Park in Hemet on Thursday, June 19, to join in the second annual Juneteenth celebration hosted by Black Voices of the Valley and the City of Hemet. “We had 11 food vendors, 18 retail vendors, and 10 resource vendors, all who came to celebrate culture, […]

Community gathers in Paso Robles for fourth Juneteenth Jubilee • Paso Robles Press

Celebration honors Black history with music, education, and local pride PASO ROBLES — On Saturday, June 21, Paso Robles City Park was alive with activity as the community gathered for the Juneteenth Jubilee. Juneteenth, short for “June Nineteenth,” marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed the last remaining enslaved African Americans […] The post Community gathers in Paso Robles for fourth Juneteenth Jubi…