Boston June 19, 2023 7:09 pm City of Boston celebrates Juneteenth with parade, other events The holiday marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. US & World Videos 1:48 Harvard protest temporarily shuts down Harvard Square in Cambridge 2:22 Needham neighborhood targeted in string of car break-ins, thefts 2:03 String of car break-ins, theft under investigation in Needham 1:53 Protest at Harvard over reported encampment punishments 0:20 Trash room fire sparks at Boston apartment building
