The ceremony opened with the raising of the Juneteenth flag followed by performances by singers Fabiola and Jehlad Akin. San Diegans celebrated Juneteenth with the first ever flag raising ceremony in

Juneteenth will be celebrated across San Diego County on Thursday. Juneteenth, which commemorates the day when around 250,000 enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom, became a federal holiday in 2021,

San Diego has several events to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.