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Good morning, readers.
Next week is Juneteenth, the nation’s second Independence Day and a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. In the Triangle, there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate.
The holiday officially falls next Wednesday, June 19 but festivities are already underway. The City of Raleigh is hosting a 10-day Juneteenth Jubilee celebration, for instance, with several events happening across town today, tomorrow, and over the weekend.
Both Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro will hold their annual Juneteenth celebrations on Saturday and Sunday.
In Apex, which has its own annual Juneteenth festival, Juneteenth in the Peak, local high school students will showcase artwork created in Middle Creek High School teacher Matthew Scialdone’s honors African American literature class.
“People are using this time not to spread hatred and not to emphasize their division but to show that there’s love and that we’re unifying after all this hardship,” says Middle Creek High School junior Alexa Burke who wrote a six-stanza poem called “Tattered” for Juneteenth in Scialdone’s class.
Check out this comprehensive roundup of Juneteenth events from across the Triangle for more ideas.
And have a good Thursday.
—Jane
Durham
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Today’s weather
Sunny with a high of 90 degrees.
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