A weekend of Juneteenth celebrations

Juneteenth festivities in Fort Worth started Friday with a program at noon at City Hall and a parade on Evans Avenue in the evening.

The observance continues Saturday with the free Juneteenth Festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Cobb Park. A 5K/1 mile walk-run begins at 7 a.m.

On Sunday, which is actually Juneteenth, the Juneteenth Scholarship Pageant is at 6:30 p.m. at Martin Hall at Texas Wesleyan University.

Juneteenth celebrates the arrival of a Union general in Galveston on June 19, 1865, with the news that the Civil War was over and slaves had been freed.

This story was originally published June 17, 2016 at 10:59 PM with the headline "A weekend of Juneteenth celebrations."