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Juneteenth festival celebrating end of slavery, bringing communities together
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Destiny Brawner, a young local artist, brought some of her work to sell at the Juneteenth Day Festival on Saturday, June 23, sponsored by the Gainesville-Hall Black History Society on the Gainesville Midtown Greenway. - photo by Kaylee Martin
The Gainesville-Hall County Black Historical Society will hold its seventh-annual Juneteeth Day Festival on Saturday, June 15, from 3-8 p.m. as a celebration of African-American emancipation after the end of the Civil War in 1865.