PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of people are expected at events Friday in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday heralding the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed. A rally was planned around a fountain alongside the Willamette River in downtown Portland, as well as […]
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