{"id":313812,"date":"2026-06-20T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313812\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:15:10","slug":"marlins-celebrate-juneteenth-with-night-of-baseball-and-black-culture-at-loandepot-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313812\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins celebrate Juneteenth with night of baseball and Black culture at LoanDepot Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The Miami Marlins celebrated South Florida\u2019s Black legacy Friday night at LoanDepot Park, welcoming the culture with open arms for a night of baseball and visibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before the Fish took on the San Francisco Giants, the stadium was treated to a performance of the Black national anthem, with moving vocals by Lady Laurana \u2014 who didn\u2019t miss a chance to speak on the importance of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local personalities also got in on the celebration. 99 Jamz radio personality Brandi Troup threw out the first pitch, and Marlins mascot Billy made his usual appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The night was all about recognizing and celebrating Black excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jason Carter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7003d7c1-78cd-4505-b1d0-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jason Carter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jason Carter is no stranger to the small screen. Whether it\u2019s covering red carpets for some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest outlets or tackling hard-hitting issues, Jason expertly bridges the gap between celebrity and news.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM MIAMI \u2014 The Miami Marlins celebrated South Florida\u2019s Black legacy Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-313812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}