MELANaire Marketplace held its sixth annual Ancestors Dream Juneteenth Festival at Fourth Street Live! in downtown Louisville.
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The awards honor Louisville community leaders who have made meaningful contributions to the commission's cause.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War.