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Juneteenth Celebration, Philadelphia, 2023

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The City of Philadelphia Celebrates Juneteenth with block party outside the African American Museum at 7th and Arch Street on Monday, June 19, 2023.

Angela “Sadio” Watson, Founder and Artistic Director with Camara Arts & Tyehimba during “pour libation to honor ancestors.” The African American Museum in Philadelphia, 7th and Arch Street, held a Juneteenth Block Party on Monday, June 19, 2023. Juneteenth “marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.”
Angela “Sadio” Watson, Founder and Artistic Director with Camara Arts & Tyehimba during “pour libation to honor ancestors.” The African American Museum in Philadelphia, 7th and Arch Street, held a Juneteenth Block Party on Monday, June 19, 2023. Juneteenth “marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.”Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer
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