Bidens to host Juneteenth concert at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a Juneteenth concert in a “celebration of community, culture and music.” The White House says the concert will be held June 13 on the South Lawn. The artists who’ll be featured include Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, singer and talk show host Jennifer Hudson, and Cliff “Method Man” Smith, a member of the legendary hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Juneteenth marks when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free — June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers told enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, news of their freedom. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021.