Juneteenth in the Bay Area: Your Event Guide for 2026 ^2.1%

KQED - By Janea Melido - 6/5/2026, 12:17 AM

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Although Juneteenth wasn’t designated a federal holiday until 2021, it’s been celebrated by Black communities since 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, discovered they were free — over two months after the end of the Civil War, and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Here in the Bay Area, there are many ways to... more