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An estimated 80 or more entrants, mostly private cars and trucks, drove in the Dunbar-Douglass Alumni Reunion’s Juneteenth parade Saturday, and the mood was jubilant.

Late Saturday morning, after the Dunbar-Douglass Alumni Reunion parade finished, Dunbar-Douglass alumni held additional reunion activities while a group of about 200 or more people met on Belknap Street, between Palestine and Commerce, to hold a memorial for “The Comanche 3,” referring to the three Black teenagers who drowned 40 years ago while in the custody of Limestone County law enforcement officers.

Nearly a dozen homeschooled high school students put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, one of the the famed playwright’s comedies.