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All-Community March in Downtown East Lansing Celebrates Juneteenth

A small but spirited crowd gathered to recognize the day in 1863 the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free.

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All-Community March in Downtown East Lansing Celebrates Juneteenth
Marchers, led by drummer Kefenste Chike, professor of African-American Studies at Wayne State University, travel south on Abbot Road during the All-Community Juneteenth March and Celebration on Sunday, June 18, 2023. (Dylan Lees for ELi)