Mayor Bowser Invites Residents to Commemorate Juneteenth 2023 in Downtown DC
Date Released:
Thu, 06/15/2023
(Washington, DC) – On Monday, June 19, Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Mayor’s Office of African American Affairs, and the DowntownDC Business Investment District (DowntownDC BID) will host events for residents to commemorate Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a national holiday commemorating the date in 1865 when, more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas and announced that all enslaved people were freed.
