{"id":277933,"date":"2026-06-25T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:03:07","slug":"manhattan-beach-celebrates-juneteenth-with-3rd-annual-concert-celebration-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277933\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach celebrates Juneteenth with 3rd annual concert, celebration \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan Beach honored the anniversary of the end of African American chattel enslavement on Sunday afternoon, June 21, with its third annual Juneteenth Celebration and Concert at Polliwog Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The free event was a local celebration of the anniversary of June 19, 1865 \u2014 the day the last enslaved African American people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom.<\/p>\n

The community festival featured live music, food vendors, a vendor village and more.<\/p>\n

\"Tanya<\/p>\n

Tanya Taylor meet with friends and family after the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Tanya<\/p>\n

Tanya Taylor meet with friends and family after the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach city officials join residents and racial justice activists for the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach Mayor Joe Franklin speaks during the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach city officials join residents and racial justice activists for the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Janet<\/p>\n

Janet Allen speaks during the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach city officials join residents and racial justice activists for the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Manhattan<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach city officials join residents and racial justice activists for the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Tanya Taylor meet with friends and family after the inaugural Juneteenth ceremony at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
\n(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Attendees ate picnic lunches on blankets and lawn chairs on the grass while watching performances by Los Angeles band WST CMPLX, among others.<\/p>\n

Dilan\u2019s Caribbean Grill, Nay\u2019s Tacos, Creamy Boys and other eateries provided the fare for sale at the event.<\/p>\n

Manhattan Beach hosted its inaugural city sponsored Juneteenth event in 2024<\/a>\u00a0and also had a separate ceremony honoring the holiday, known as African American Independence Day, at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park. Bruce\u2019s Beach Park and the shore below it is a local Black historic landmark, the site of a formerly African American-owned and -serving coastal resort in the White-dominated beach town.<\/p>\n

Donations allowed the city to host Juneteenth celebrations through at least this year.<\/p>\n

Before 2024, community organizations Justice for Bruce\u2019s Beach and Culture Club South Bay hosted respective Juneteenth celebrations at Bruce\u2019s Beach Park before the City Council adopted a policy limiting large events there and at other small parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan Beach honored the anniversary of the end of African American chattel enslavement on Sunday afternoon, June 21,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9965,2136,1882,969,97859,267,9966,75,9967,84,83,9,24,63,32476,31296],"class_list":["post-277933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-beach-cities","tag-california","tag-community","tag-holidays","tag-juneteenth","tag-local-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-beach","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tbr-manhattan-beach","tag-top-stories-tbr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277933","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=277933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}