'Celebrating our freedom:' Juneteenth Freedom Festival brings hundreds to Festival Park
Wearing sunglasses, a white-laced shirt and with a neck full of coin necklaces, Nero B. Coleman, known by his friends as “Crazy Horse,” had a wide grin as he stood in the bright sunlight at Festival Park on Saturday afternoon for the first Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebration.For 17 years, he organized a smaller celebration of the ceremony celebrating the end of slavery in the United States at Seabrook Park.But when he heard that a new group in town, Circa 1865, […]
