Back to the roots: Salisbury Juneteenth honors founding organizers

Back to the roots: Salisbury Juneteenth honors founding organizers

SALISBURY — It has been 31 years since the first Juneteenth organized festival in Salisbury. Saturday’s latest incarnation of the event paid homage to those founding members that brought the celebration of Black emancipation to the city. The organization that introduced Juneteenth to Salisbury was called the Rowan Area Minority Business Association (RAMBA). It was founded on Sept. 23, 1993, as a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing bus…