NCC News Brief: June 17, 2022 NCC News Brief: June 17, 2022

MARCUS VEAL: THIS IS YOUR NCC NEWSBRIEF on June 17th. I’M Marcus Veal.

Juneteenth weekend has arrived in Syracuse and its festival is back after a hiatus during the pandemic. The Everson Art Museum is participating in the festivities with its Juneteenth Free Community Day event happening on Saturday. The museum’s director of learning and engagement Adam Carlin says a fun and eventful day is planned.

ADAM CARLIN: We’ll have a food truck here, and it’ll be a really exciting, engaging and stimulating day with lots of different programs, you can engage with lots of different artists in the community and organizations.”

VEAL: Juneteenth weekend is another opportunity for Central New Yorkers to support black businesses. Collin’s Barber and Beauty Shop is a pillar of the black community in Syracuse, and owner Charleston Collins understands the impact his family shop has.

CHARLESTON COLLINS: How important it was to have places like this in the neighborhood because it was a meeting place…it was a place they would hold meetings after hours.”

VEAL: There’s a new pro soccer team in Syracuse. The Syracuse Pulse is a club in the national independent soccer association – the third tier of professional soccer. Spokesperson Dante Furco says growing pains are expected but knows that the Salt City loves its sports.

DANTE FURCO: It’s a tough time competing in Syracuse with Syracuse Athletics and with their other things like Syracuse Mets and high school sports but we’re hoping that we’re right there with the best of them.”

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