Turner Industries, for the second year, is sponsoring Baton Rouge, La.’s 19^th Annual Juneteenth Roots & Heritage Festival. Juneteenth Day (the 3^rd Saturday in June) is celebrated throughout Louisiana in honor of the Day African Americans celebrate Emancipation Day.

This year’s celebration includes choirs, exhibits, speakers, great food, and live music. The headline act, The Charmaine Neville Band, hails from New Orleans, LA. For the past 20 years, the band’s jazz and funk sound has won critics and fans the world over (http://www.charmainenevilleband.com/cnpress.html).

The Baton Rouge area Juneteenth festival is presented by the Odell S. Williams Now And Then Museum of African-American History. The Museum, located in downtown Baton Rouge, features exhibits highlighting minority inventors and inventions, African art, and rural artifacts. Turner Industries, a three-year sponsor of the museum, appreciates the opportunity to be a part of the Juneteenth celebration.