The City of Indianapolis has canceled its annual Juneteenth parade due to the inability to agree on an event location, The Hill reported Monday.

“Due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts with other major events in the city, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the parade for 2025,” Indy Juneteenth stated.

Former President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021. The event takes place on June 19. Its history is said to consist of the last of the American slaves learning they had been emancipated.

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