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Lamesa’s celebration of Juneteenth is being revived with three days of events beginning Friday at Forrest Park and Hollis Carver Park.A Juneteenth celebration was a common annual practice here for a long time. COVID-19 put a stop to that in 2020.“We always celebrated it and we want to make sure to bring it back,” said one of the event’s organizers, Denitrice Jenkins.The celebration is in honor of the day on June 19, 1865 an announcement was made in Galveston that slaves in Texas were told they were finally free.The celebration here begins at 6 p.m. Friday at the Forrest Park ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

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Lamesa, TX 79331
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