Better late than never. The first inaugural Juneteenth event in West Marin will take place in September at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center, after it was postponed in June with hopes of a live event. The afternoon will feature history, information and entertainment, with tributes to Maya Angelou, the Black national anthem, and the story of Marin City, whose history is tied to the Great Migration as Black southerners moved to the newly created city to work in wartime shipyards. Juneteenth commemorates the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free in 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. June Farmer, a member of Marin County’s Equity Committee, will give a history of Juneteenth at the West Marin event. The goal for organizer Mwanza Furaha is to bring “a new awareness of the importance of Juneteenth” and for attendees to “learn something they didn’t know.” Juneteenth in West Marin will carry sounds of the United Sun Drums of Urban African Ensemble, the Art is Health Jazz and Soul Band and poetry written to support the civil rights movement. Sharika Gregory, a San Anselmo resident, will perform a rap to her Black son, inspired by the “thoughts that manifested when thinking about the things he would have to overcome on his journey to becoming a man,” Dr. Furaha said. Admission to the event, which takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 12, is $10 and free for children 12 and under. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Just Armour, which donates skates to kids to teach them to skate “over our differences, through our fears” and toward a better community. Visit sgvcc.org for more information.