Dallas Southern Pride organizers announced today (Friday, May 15) that they are cancelling the 2020 Juneteenth Weekend events in light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Organizers had gathered this week “to discuss the health and safety of our team and, most importantly, our community,” and as a result decided to cancel the events, which the organization sponsors each June to mark the day that slaves in Texas learned, two years after the fact, that Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation