Triad Cultural Arts

Dozens of Juneteenth activities are happening throughout the Triad starting this weekend. Here's a sampling of what you can expect to find in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

Triad Cultural Arts was awarded a North Carolina Humanities Grant for the Shotgun House Legacy Site. $3,000 will be utilized to document significant narratives from residents concerning Black life in Winston-Salem throughout the Jim Crow and Civil Rights periods.

Forsyth Technical Community College kicked off an event series on Monday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a collaboration between local universities, nonprofit organization Triad Cultural Arts, and other community members.

When Triad Cultural Arts, Inc. purchased three lots from Winston-Salem, it marked a major step in a multi-year effort to create a new cultural center.

Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a Union general arrived in Texas, accompanied by 2,000 troops, and delivered the news that all enslaved Black people in the state were free. That was June 19, 1865, and on its one-year anniversary, the very first Juneteenth celebrations took place there.

Community leaders in the Triad are celebrating a decision by Congress to make Juneteenth a national federal holiday. Organizers here have been working…