#juneteenth2026

Juneteenth Celebration - Webpage CLICK HERE 

Friday, June 19 - Market Plaza

3:00 p.m. - Vendors Open 5:00 p.m. -  Juneteenth Ceremony 6:00 p.m. - Live Music Performances

Saturday, June 20 - R&B Brunch and Chapline Street Sign Dedication - Webpage: CLICK HERE, Press Release: CLICK HERE

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - R&B Brunch at the Wheeling Artisan Center, A Southern-style brunch featuring games, trivia, and music by DJ Kaz. 1:30 p.m. - New Interpretive Sign Dedication on Chapline Street, located at the corner of Lane 7 near 1025 Chapline Street. 2:00 p.m. - Tour of the Pythian Building, 1025 Chapline Street.

America 250, Wheeling -  Webpage: CLICK HERE, Press Release: CLICK HERE

Saturday, June 20 - Main Street to Mountains: A Wheeling Portrait Plein Air Art Experience -  Webpage: CLICK HERE, Press Release: CLICK HERE. 

✅ Part 3 of 3: What You Get Inside The Underground Railroad

When you join the Underground Railroad inside Black Rivers, you stop renting your audience and start owning your network. 👑

Here's exactly what that means 👇🏾

🔑 One membership. Multiple communities. Access to a curated network of vetted Black digital communities — no separate sign-ups, no gatekeeping.

🛡️ Algorithm-free. Your content reaches people who actually chose to be in your world — not whoever the platform decides to show you to today.

🤝🏾 Real peer connections with Black business owners who are building at your level and facing the same challenges you are.

📚 Resources built for us. Strategy, tools, and community designed specifically for Black-owned businesses — not retrofitted from content made for someone else.

📈 A network that compounds. Nobody can cut your reach. Nobody can suppress your content. What you build here is yours forever.

✊🏾 Harriet Tubman didn't free everyone — she freed the ones who were ready to move.

This is for the ones who are ready to move. 🚂

Freedom was never given. It was built. We built it. Come through.

🚂 blackrivers.net — The Underground Railroad. Join us.

📊 Part 2 of 3: The System Was Never Built For You

Let's be real about what the major platforms are actually costing you 👇🏾

📉 Facebook organic reach has dropped to under 2% for most business pages. You are invisible to 98% of the people who asked to follow you.

💸 Instagram rewards ads — not your content. No budget? No reach.

🔗 LinkedIn punishes posts with external links. Every time you try to drive traffic somewhere, they suppress you for it.

👀 TikTok has a documented history of suppressing Black creators and Black business content — confirmed by multiple investigations.

🚪 X (Twitter) has seen Black users leave in record numbers since 2022 following ownership changes and rollback of content moderation.

❌ These platforms are not neutral. They never were.

You are not crazy for feeling like the system is working against you. Because it is. 😤

That's why we built a way out. 🚂

blackrivers.net — The Underground Railroad. Your network. Your freedom.

🚂 The Underground Railroad Is Back — And This Time, It's for Black Business Owners ✊🏾

Harriet Tubman didn't wait for the system to change. She didn't ask permission.

She built a network. 💪🏾

A series of safe houses, trusted routes, and courageous guides that operated outside the system entirely — and gave people access to something the existing system refused to provide: Freedom. 🕊️

We took that name. And we gave it new meaning. 🔥

The Underground Railroad inside Black Rivers is a curated network of Black digital communities — hand-selected, vetted, and brought together under one membership.

One membership. Multiple communities. Multiple networks. All operating outside the algorithm. All built specifically for Black business owners. 🙌🏾

👇🏾 Keep reading — Parts 2 & 3 drop next.

🚂 Join the movement at blackrivers.net

✅ Part 3 of 3: What You Get Inside The Underground Railroad

When you join the Underground Railroad inside Black Rivers, you stop renting your audience and start owning your network. 👑

Here's exactly what that means 👇🏾

🔑 One membership. Multiple communities. Access to a curated network of vetted Black digital communities — no separate sign-ups, no gatekeeping.

🛡️ Algorithm-free. Your content reaches people who actually chose to be in your world — not whoever the platform decides to show you to today.

🤝🏾 Real peer connections with Black business owners who are building at your level and facing the same challenges you are.

📚 Resources built for us. Strategy, tools, and community designed specifically for Black-owned businesses — not retrofitted from content made for someone else.

📈 A network that compounds. Nobody can cut your reach. Nobody can suppress your content. What you build here is yours forever.

✊🏾 Harriet Tubman didn't free everyone — she freed the ones who were ready to move.

This is for the ones who are ready to move. 🚂

Freedom was never given. It was built. We built it. Come through.

🚂 blackrivers.net — The Underground Railroad. Join us.

📊 Part 2 of 3: The System Was Never Built For You

Let's be real about what the major platforms are actually costing you 👇🏾

📉 Facebook organic reach has dropped to under 2% for most business pages. You are invisible to 98% of the people who asked to follow you.

💸 Instagram rewards ads — not your content. No budget? No reach.

🔗 LinkedIn punishes posts with external links. Every time you try to drive traffic somewhere, they suppress you for it.

👀 TikTok has a documented history of suppressing Black creators and Black business content — confirmed by multiple investigations.

🚪 X (Twitter) has seen Black users leave in record numbers since 2022 following ownership changes and rollback of content moderation.

❌ These platforms are not neutral. They never were.

You are not crazy for feeling like the system is working against you. Because it is. 😤

That's why we built a way out. 🚂

blackrivers.net — The Underground Railroad. Your network. Your freedom.

🚂 The Underground Railroad Is Back — And This Time, It's for Black Business Owners ✊🏾

Harriet Tubman didn't wait for the system to change. She didn't ask permission.

She built a network. 💪🏾

A series of safe houses, trusted routes, and courageous guides that operated outside the system entirely — and gave people access to something the existing system refused to provide: Freedom. 🕊️

We took that name. And we gave it new meaning. 🔥

The Underground Railroad inside Black Rivers is a curated network of Black digital communities — hand-selected, vetted, and brought together under one membership.

One membership. Multiple communities. Multiple networks. All operating outside the algorithm. All built specifically for Black business owners. 🙌🏾

👇🏾 Keep reading — Parts 2 & 3 drop next.

🚂 Join the movement at blackrivers.net