juneteenth events What’s happening
Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, 505 Parkcliffe Ave., Youngstown, is sponsoring a three-day Juneteenth community celebration of deliverance. Events began Friday and will continue from 11 a.m. to dusk today and Sunday.
SPECIAL SHOW: The celebration will feature a performance at 5 p.m. today by the Distinguished Gentlemen of Cleveland. The 20-member troupe involves inner-city men, ages 8-18, who will perform prose and poetry selections in a hip-hop approach. They have garnered national acclaim for their motivational presentations.
OTHER PARTICIPANT: The event will highlight the church’s partnership with Mahoning County Children Services Board’s One Church-One Child Foster and Adoption Initiative.
ACTIVITIES: There will be amusement rides, live entertainment, bake-off contests, storytelling, clowns, face painting, a mobile health clinic, radio remotes, line dancing contests, ethnic foods, black products and access to services by area nonprofit organizations.