Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, realized they have been free, greater than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Communities throughout the Gulf South proceed to mark the vacation with occasions honoring Black historical past, tradition and resilience.

Right here’s a take a look at among the Juneteenth occasions taking place across the New Orleans space. 

Saturday, June 13

Whitney Plantation Freedom Pageant

• Location: Whitney Plantation, 5099 Freeway 18, Wallace
• Time: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The Whitney Plantation will host its annual Freedom Pageant that includes stay music, storytelling, meals distributors, panel discussions and self-guided excursions of the museum grounds. This yr’s programming features a dialog with civil rights pioneer Leona Tate, one of many first college students to combine a public college in New Orleans. Admission is free with registration. 

Thursday, June 18

Freedom for All Sneaker Ball

• Location: New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave.
• Time: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• The New Orleans Jazz Museum will host its annual Juneteenth Sneaker Ball, a night of music, dancing and celebration honoring Black tradition and historical past. 

Friday, June 19

NOLA Juneteenth Pageant

• Location: Congo Sq. at Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St.
• Time: Midday to five:30 p.m.
• The Louisiana Afro-Indigenous Society’s annual Juneteenth celebration returns to Congo Sq. with stay music, native artists, meals distributors, instructional displays and neighborhood organizations. The occasion is free and open to the general public.

Ancestral Odyssey by Vince Fraser

• Location: New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls St.
• Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The New Orleans African American Museum’s immersive digital artwork set up, Ancestral Odyssey, explores the historical past of Black Masking Indians and the African diaspora via Afro-surrealist storytelling. Created by artist Vince Fraser in collaboration with native cultural leaders, the exhibit blends artwork, historical past and know-how in a multi-sensory expertise.

Voices Reclaimed: A Juneteenth Fundraiser

• Location: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 2200 Dumaine St.
• Time: 2 p.m.
• This profit live performance will increase cash for restoration efforts on the historic Mount Zion Baptist Church in Tremé. Organizers say proceeds will assist protect one of many neighborhood’s longstanding landmarks.

“The Black Pages,” A Multimedia expertise coaching the evolution of sound

• Location: The New Marigny Theatre, 2301 Marais St.
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• New Orleans artist Juice presents The Black Pages, a multimedia efficiency tracing the evolution of Black music from spirituals and blues to jazz, soul and hip-hop. Combining stay music, visuals and storytelling, the present explores how generations of Black artists reworked historical past, tradition and lived expertise into sounds that proceed to form the world. 

Saturday, June 20

Free Individuals’s Farmers Market

• Location: In entrance of the Andre Cailloux Heart
• Time: 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
• Native distributors and growers will provide recent produce, meals and neighborhood assets as a part of the Bayou Street Juneteenth celebration.

Juneteenth Financial Summit

• Location: Andre Cailloux Heart, 2541 Bayou Street
• Time: 11 a.m. to three p.m.
• Group leaders, entrepreneurs and advocates will collect for discussions centered on financial growth, enterprise alternatives and neighborhood funding.

Juneteenth Freedom Gala

• Location: Andre Cailloux Heart, 2541 Bayou Street
• Time: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• The Louisiana Afro-Indigenous Society’s Freedom Gala will function music, audio system and celebrations highlighting Black tradition, management and achievement.

This story was produced by the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WBHM in Alabama, WWNO and WRKF in Louisiana and NPR. 

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