{"id":321266,"date":"2026-06-03T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:16:09","slug":"plans-for-the-2026-coastal-bend-juneteenth-festival-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321266\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for the 2026 Coastal Bend Juneteenth Festival announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education has announced plans for the 2026 Coastal Bend Juneteenth Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-day celebration runs June 19-21 at Water&#8217;s Edge Park. The theme for this year&#8217;s festival is &#8220;Waves of Liberation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The festival will feature live music, food trucks, Black-owned vendors, and health and educational exhibits. Organizers say no ice chests will be allowed. Tents are allowed in designated areas for a small fee. All attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets.  <\/p>\n<p>The entertainment lineup includes Texas artist Bun B and Grammy-nominated R&amp;B artist Elle Varner.<\/p>\n<p>The Coastal Bend Juneteenth Festival has grown from about 500 attendees in 2018 to more than 22,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780510569_59_.png\" alt=\"2026 Juneteenth Festival \"  width=\"809\" height=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2026 Juneteenth Festival<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education has announced plans for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-321266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}