{"id":365802,"date":"2026-06-18T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365802\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:03:07","slug":"bakersfield-naacp-to-host-11th-annual-juneteenth-freedom-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365802\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield NAACP to host 11th annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 The NAACP Bakersfield Branch is celebrating Juneteenth with events happening throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Bianca Hayes and Patrick Jackson with Bakersfield NAACP joined Eyewitness News Mornings to share more details about how the community can join in on the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><p>Bakersfield NAACP to host 11th annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebrations (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The community is invited to the 11th Annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, happening on Friday, June 19.<\/p>\n<p>The event will begin with a brunch starting at 11 a.m. at Ay Mi Pa Mexican Grill and Cantina on Ming Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A live music mixer will follow, starting at 4 p.m. at the Jazz Spot on Wible Road. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, June 20, a Juneteenth Festival will be held at Jastro Park in Downtown Bakersfield. <\/p>\n<p>The festival will begin at 1 p.m. and will feature music, food and entertainment for the entire family.<\/p>\n<p>All of the NAACP&#8217;s Juneteenth events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naacpbakersfield\/?ref=embed_page#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NAACP Bakersfield<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The NAACP Bakersfield Branch is celebrating Juneteenth with events happening throughout the weekend. Bianca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-365802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}