Events began last weekend, but many had the day off from work Wednesday, June 19, when more events were scheduled.
Rashad Hasan looks over shirts Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Cal State San Bernardino hosts the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Tables of Black-owned businesses are part of the holiday event. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Tammie Shamel McDonald gives a presentation Wednesday, June 19, 2024, on how to start a business during the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Guests at the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration make silly videos Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Eric McDonald, known as DJ Mysteree, plays music Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Teasha Gil and Tanesha Wilcots make silly videos Wednesday, June 19, 2024, during the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, includes tables full of shirts celebrating Black pride. It was hosted by Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration includes shirts marking the holiday Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Tables are decorated with symbols celebrating the holiday during the second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, seen Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Cal State San Bernardino, features shirts celebrating Black pride. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in San Bernardino includes displays from Black-owned businesses. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in San Bernardino includes tables decorated with symbols for the holiday. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
Robert and Michelle Shropshire, grandchildren of Louise Shropshire, give a Wednesday, June 19, 2024, presentation about their grandmother’s influence in the civil rights movement at the Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG
The second annual Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, in San Bernardino includes tables with displays for the holiday. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
From left, Gloria Woods, Patricia Hasan, and Rashad Hasan are seen Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at the Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
A visitor to the Love4Us Juneteenth Freedom Celebration on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, checks out a vendor’s shirts at Cal State San Bernardino. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
At Cal State San Bernardino, the Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration was staged by the nonprofit group called Love4Us.
The second annual celebration featured music, art, kids’ activities, live performances and vendors. But it also included information about how to get on the path toward a university education.
Juneteenth commemorates the formal end of slavery after the Civil War, when the last enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom June 19, 1865.
Other Inland events included the Juneteenth Family Festival at Mt. Rubidoux Church in Riverside and the Juneteenth Jam at Rialto’s Fergusson Park.
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