By Barrett Seaman– One of the more ambitious Juneteenth events this year took place in Irvington on the Saturday following the day that in 1865 marked the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans at the end of the Civil War. Irvington had an advantage in being home to Villa Lewaro, the 34-room, 20,000 square foot mansion built between 1917 and 1918 by Madam C.J. Walker, the cosmetics entrepreneur who became America’s first Black female millionaire. She built the estate on North Broadway, […]
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