Rancho Cucamonga Juneteenth WALK #5

To celebrate the USA's 2026 Juneteenth Federal Holiday and to encourage the City of Rancho Cucamonga Southern California USA to make Juneteenth an Official City Holiday, participants heed Opel Lee's call to annually WALK 2 & 1/2 miles in remembrance of the 2 & 1/2 years it took for United States Slaves to be informed that they had been freed.

On Friday (6/19/26) starting before 9:30am at 7th Street and Anaheim Place, Rancho Cucamonga CA 91730 USA (near the Solamonte Apartment Complex Cucamonga Station side gate entrance) prolific Hollywood talent Phillip E. Walker-MFA greets them.

Then at 10:00 am PhilE (stage name) will begin to lead the 2 & 1/2 mile WALK to Rancho Cucamonga City Hall.

Upon their arrival the event's walkers will meetup with folk already gathered around the CityOfRC.us Water Fountain. There any attending previous years participants will be introduced to the public.

Then San Jose State University Television Radio Film and Theatre Professor Emeritus Dr. Ethel Pitts Walker and others will present short speeches about the history of this Federal Holiday.

To close the 2026 WALK, attendees will sign and then present to The City a formal request that the Local Government make Juneteenth an Official City of Rancho Cucamonga California USA Holiday.

Then at 3:00pm that afternoon, locally produced Juneteenth films "Hapless Revenge - an Original Juneteenth Tale" and the 4th year's WALK documentary "Rancho Cucamonga Juneteenth Walk #4" will be shown in the https://SolamonteGlassBooth.com during the annual Birthday Party in honor of https://HaplessRevenge.com cast member Stella Cavanaugh.

See Press Release at https://www.prlog.org/13149056.html