Juneteenth Flag Raising & Reverence Ceremony
Date: June 16, 2023 - 12:00pm
We welcome all to the City of Urbana's Juneteenth Flag Raising & Reverence Ceremony.
Learn the history of Juneteenth, as well as, the significance of Juneteenth and how it affects us today. We will also raise the Official Juneteenth Flag while practicing a moment of reverence. A Mayoral Proclamation will be read declaring the day official in the City of Urbana.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." — Barack Obama