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Sounds of music, laughter and joy abounded at Berkeley’s 36th Juneteenth Festival on Sunday. The festival commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last of American enslaved people were declared free in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Berkeley City Council heard local elementary students advocate for sustainable school kitchens and approved a bird-safe building requirement ordinance during its weekly meeting Tuesday.

From the intersections of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Wooley Street to Adeline and Alcatraz, Berkeley and Oakland residents took the streets for the 35th annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival on Saturday. 

As a lawyer and former ACLU deputy director, Jeffery Robinson has dedicated his life to righting wrongs — the pressing and the cataclysmic.

Remember through poetry how far you’ve come with the months and moments of 2021.

Joining the city of Berkeley, the U.S. Senate and the UC system officially observed Juneteenth as a holiday for the first time.

This year, as we celebrate Juneteenth — a holiday meant to bring Americans together to celebrate the day all Americans became free — we can reflect on the ways Americans have told stories of Black liberation for all the world to see — through public art.

Be politically active if you desire change. And one of our first steps in balancing the scales of racial injustice in education should be to vote for ACA 5.

As a multimedia artist, Freddie crystallized the spirit of activism blossoming within the past month in support of the Black Lives Matter and prison abolition movements by releasing a new music video titled “Juneteenth.”

Each year, Juneteenth commemorates a milestone to freedom for Black Americans. As Black people celebrate this weekend, support Black businesses and buy these products from a Bay Area business.