How activist-artists in Greensboro established Juneteenth as a city holiday a year before the US declared it a federal holiday 

Featured photo: Vendors sell Juneteenth-themed shirts during the 2022 festival. (photo by Carolyn de Berry)Princess Johnson, a dancer and owner of Greensboro-based Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet, did not grow up celebrating Juneteenth. Even as a Black woman who grew up in the South, the holiday was something only a few people in her circle celebrated.“I didn’t know what it was exactly. Growing up in the United States, everything’s about the Fourth of July,” she sai