Emancipation Day Celebration To Be Held Saturday
Laurel's annual Emancipation Parade is scheduled at 2:00 p.m.
Performers of all ages performed in the 2011 Emancipation Day Parade in Laurel on Sat. Sept. 3.
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The City of Laurel will hold its annual Emancipation Day Celebration on Saturday.
The parade will kick off at 2 p.m. at St. Mark's United Methodist Church along Eighth Street and will feature officials from the City of Laurel, as well as food vendors, and live music.
The event celebrates the the freeing of slaves in America and the parade has become the oldest event in Laurel spanning more than 100 years.
Marcus Aurelius
11:52 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Can this be the year? That people stop blaming slavery for everything that is wrong with the Africans, Nobody is alive that was ever a slave, nor there grandparents etc.. Slavery was a terrible thing and always will be, but the laws were changed and that is what socities do, change the laws that were bad, every type of immigrant that came to this country had a rough go of it and we all have the same opportunies now to better ourselves. Enjoy the celebration but stop the blaming of people that are all long gone.