{"id":270256,"date":"2026-06-18T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:02:08","slug":"juneteenth-celebrations-planned-friday-and-saturday-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270256\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth celebrations planned Friday and Saturday in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Manhattan is ready for a 2-day celebration to mark Juneteenth 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Betty O and Dr. Zelia Wiley joined Eye on Northeast Kansas to preview events planned Friday June 19 and Saturday June 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Friday includes a grill-off at 5pm and a 7pm concert featuring \u2018Party Train\u2019, formerly known as The Gap Band. Both events at City Park in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saturday includes a unity walk, a cultural showcase, kids zone, vendors and more at the Douglas Activity Center in Manhattan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information and a schedule of events, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneteenthmhk.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.juneteenthmhk.org\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Manhattan is ready for a 2-day celebration to mark Juneteenth 2026. Betty O and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104237,104238,104233,104234,104232,104236,104235,104241,75,84,83,9,24,63,104239,104240],"class_list":["post-270256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-betty-o-juneteenth","tag-dr-zelia-wiley-juneteenth","tag-juneteenth-kansas","tag-juneteenth-manhattan","tag-juneteenth-manhattan-kansas","tag-juneteenth-manhattan-red-couch-show","tag-juneteenth-manhattan-wibw","tag-juneteenth-wibw","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-party-train-band-manhattan","tag-party-train-juneteenth-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}