Juneteenth will be a two-day celebration this year

The 2023 Juneteenth in Wake Forest will be a two-day event featuring the Alston-Massenburg Center, 416 North Taylor Street, on Friday, June 16, and the DuBois Center, 518 North Franklin Street, on Saturday, June 17.
Friday’s event will run from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and will feature giveaways, Jay’s Italian Ice, and more fun before the crowd walks to the soon-to-open Wake Forest Food Hall at 303 East Roosevelt Avenue to purchase dinner from the various food trucks there.
On Saturday the activities run from late morning to late evening. It all begins at 11:45 a.m. when participants will assemble for a recreation of the historic Freedom Walk. Then from noon until 3:30 p.m. there will be a festival with booths, fun and food.
From 4 to 8 p.m. the scene shifts to the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts at 508 South Brooks Street where Eugene Brown, a motivational speaker and renowned chess player will both speak and play chess with local challengers. Brown was an actor in the film “The Life of a King” starring Cuba Gooding Jr.
Juneteenth is supported by the Northeast Community Coalition and the Town of Wake Forest.
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