The Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture on Friday marked Juneteenth with an open house at the group’s home, 1902 N. Main Ave., Scranton. The organization was celebrating seven years of Juneteenth programming, community building, archives, art, music and culture in Northeast Pennsylvania under the leadership of founder and CEO Glynis M. Johns. Juneteenth — which combines “June” and “nineteenth” — represents the date in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed. It came two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday.
Attendees look at a photo installation during a Juneteenth open house at the Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture in Scranton, Pa., on Friday, June 19, 2026. (ISAAC DIAZ/STAFF PHOTO)
Merchandise is displayed during a Juneteenth open house hosted at the Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture in Scranton, Pa., on Friday, June 19, 2026. (ISAAC DIAZ/STAFF PHOTO)
Attendees sit and talk during a Juneteenth open house hosted by the Black Scranton Project at the Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture in Scranton, Pa., on Friday, June 19, 2026. (ISAAC DIAZ/STAFF PHOTO)
Attendees talk during a Juneteenth open house hosted at the Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture in Scranton, Pa., on Friday, June 19, 2026. (ISAAC DIAZ/STAFF PHOTO)