YOUNGSTOWN - Organizers are inviting people to come to Downtown Youngstown to celebrate Juneteenth in one day after the official observance.

Loud 102.3 FM and other organizations are holding a day of line dancing, the spoken word, free food, giveaways and a candlelight vigil at the Youngstown Foundation Amphitheater on Saturday, June 20, 2020.

Organizer Charles Covin tells 21 News that Youngstown Mayor Tito Brown will open the festivities which will include line dancing to music from the Roundup Band and DJs from Loud 102.3 FM.

A Youngstown fire truck will be there along with the city police bomb squad’s robot, according to Covin.

Players from YSU’s Penguin Basketball team will be on hand along with 40 vendors.

A candlelight vigil is planned to remember those who died because of police brutality as well as those who have succumbed to the coronavirus, said Covin.

Prayers will be offered by ministers from Youngstown churches.

The celebration is scheduled from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Amphitheatre, 201 South Phelps Street.

Juneteenth commemorates the date in 1865 when slaves in Texas were finally told that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing them two years earlier.