{"id":223650,"date":"2026-06-20T03:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:20:09","slug":"in-photos-black-scranton-project-commemorates-juneteenth-with-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223650\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: Black Scranton Project commemorates Juneteenth with open house"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Scranton Project<\/a> marked Juneteenth 2026 with a Friday afternoon open house at its Center for Arts & Culture on North Main Avenue.<\/p>\n

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the date on which Union troops entered Galveston, Texas and announced that all enslaved people were free.<\/p>\n

President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared all enslaved people in Confederate states were free on Jan. 1, 1863, as the Civil War was raging. <\/p>\n

It took until Major General Gordon Granger’s order over two years later for the proclamation to be enforced in Texas, nearly a month after the war had ended.<\/p>\n

Many community groups and individual states have recognized the holiday in various ways, but Juneteenth did not become a federal holiday until 2021.<\/p>\n

The Black Scranton Project hosted its first Juneteenth celebration in 2019.<\/p>\n

This year’s event offered visitors the chance to tour the nonprofit group’s building, look at archival materials, and learn about its mission.<\/p>\n

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Glynis Johns DJs during the Black Scranton Project open house on Juneteenth. <\/p>\n

Aimee Dilger \/ WVIA News<\/p>\n

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Photos from past Junteenth Parties were displayed at the Black Scranton Project. <\/p>\n

Aimee Dilger \/ WVIA News <\/p>\n

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Joann Pettus and Colleen Sanders talk with Miranda Pace and Alec Walker-Serrano at the Juneteenth Open House.<\/p>\n

Aimee Dilger \/ WVIA News<\/p>\n

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Maurielle Artis of Scranton leaves a message for future Black History Month presentations.<\/p>\n

Aimee Dilger \/ WVIA News<\/p>\n

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Community members attended an open house at the Black Scranton Project to celebrate Juneteenth. <\/p>\n

Aimee Dilger \/ WVIA News<\/p>\n

Learn more about Juneteenth<\/p>\n

\u25cf How much do you know about Juneteenth? \u2014 Associated Press quiz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf National Juneteenth coverage \u2014 Associated Press<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u25cf How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South \u2014 NPR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ celebrates freedom, 2.5 miles at a time \u2014 NPR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf What is Juneteenth? \u2014 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Juneteenth<\/p>\n

Juneteenth flags and other merch were available during Black Scranton Project’s Juneteenth open house on June 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Scranton Project marked Juneteenth 2026 with a Friday afternoon open house at its Center for Arts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-223650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}