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Join Weeksville Heritage Center and Jummy’s Picks by Black-Owned Brooklyn for our second annual Juneteenth Food Festival on June 17 and 18, from 12-7 pm. Food has been a part of Juneteenth since the holiday was first observed in 1866 to commemorate June 19, 1865 — when enslaved Black Texans were informed they were free, two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The festival will feature 29 Black food businesses offering African American fare traditional to the holiday, such as barbecue, fried fish, crab boil, red beans and rice, red drinks and red velvet cake; as well as…