ABC13 anchor Briana Conner’s mother among honorees at Juneteenth celebration in Fort Bend County

All this weekend, there are festivities across the area to celebrate Juneteenth. The holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston to announce the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years earlier. Monday will be 151 years since enslaved people in Texas learned they were free.