This year’s event, officially called the African World Festival and International Caribbean Festival.  For 27 years, the free festival has brought joy to youngsters and elders.

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Charles Johnson, 58, of Detroit donned a Civil War-era uniform to highlight the role of the buffalo soldiers in the taming of the West. Coming to the festival, sponsored by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, was important because, “African Americans contributed and even to this day, serve the United States honorably,” he said.

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