Unique Juneteenth mural could be coming to Buffalo next year [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As we approach the Juneteenth Parade and Festival this weekend and the holiday next week, we are also learning about an exciting new effort to create a visual celebration of that historic event for equality. 

You just can’t miss the eye-catching mural on a building wall in downtown Galveston.

NBC Nightly News and our Houston, Texas, sister station KHOU-TV covered the event in 2021, when the Juneteenth Legacy Project dedicated the mural created by artist Reginald C. Adams and his team.

“We were able to bring to life that mural over the course of about 27 days,” Adams said. “We moved about 325 gallons of paint, and there was about 1,300 man hours that went into bringing that 5,000 square foot mural to life.”

The images depict the actual signing of a military order …