LAUGHTER AND DANCING filled the Williamson Ranch Park at the fourth annual Antioch Juneteenth celebration this weekend.  

On Friday evening, hundreds of Antioch residents, local artists, and advocacy organizations came to commemorate Union soldiers traveling to Texas on June 19, 1895, to let enslaved people there know that they were emancipated — two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.   

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A graduate student at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Emily focuses on business and health reporting. She is especially interested in covering economic and community development issues in Contra Costa County.