Celebrate African American freedom with your Rockland County neighbors this Saturday, June 15 at the Juneteenth Independence Celebration.

The festivities will be held at Memorial Park at Piermont Avenue in Nyack starting at 8 a.m.

Juneteenth commemorates Union General Gorgon Granger's declaration that all slaves are free on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.