Comment on Local Juneteenth Trailblazers honored for activism, bolstering children

Speaking out, introducing children to the arts and providing faith-based education to low-income students were actions celebrated at the Juneteenth Trailblazers Awards earlier this month in Coralville. The Sankofa Outreach Connection, a group of women of color in Johnson County, presented the fourth-annual awards June 14 at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center to Nikesha Jones-Jenkins, founder and director of the Jones Academy of Performing Arts in Coralville; Mariam Keita, a City High School senior; and Faith Academy, a K-6 private school in Iowa City.