ACC’s African-American Cultural Center will host a Juneteenth event Wednesday, June 19, at Eastview Campus (3401 Webberville Rd., Building 2000, Room 2133). The program and reception run 10 to 11:30 a.m. It is free and open to the public.

The event will include a recognition of community leaders, including the late Mae Pearl Leonard, who served as a member of Eastview’s original Campus Advisory Committee.

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, is a national commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday honors the arrival of troops in Galveston to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.

For more information on the event, contact Roland Hayes at 223.5166.