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Join us on Juneteenth. Take to the streets or participate digitally. Find a nearby action or host your own so others can attend:

In response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other Black people who have been killed at the hands of vigilanties or law enforcement, millions have taken to the streets with a clear and distinct call to end police violence and to defund police. Combined with COVID-19 and four years of Trumpism, Black communities are demanding: justice; accountability; a divestment from policing; and an investment in healthy, sustainable communities.

To honor our ancestors and to lay a path to freedom for future generations, we are calling for the sixnineteen mobilization on Juneteenth weekend, June 19-21, 2020. We invite you to join us by taking action from home, in your community, or in Washington, D.C.

The millions of us are here to remind lawmakers that we are bigger than monied interests, including police unions and right-wing think tanks. We know the path away from this disaster. After years of anti-Black violence and animosity for Black life, we demand the defunding of police and an investment in Black communities. We also call for the resignation of Donald Trump, who met our calls for justice with a brutal wave of repression that has added fuel to the fire of racism and systemic inequity.

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Join us on Juneteenth. Take to the streets or participate digitally. Find a nearby action or host your own so others can attend: In response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless other Black people who have been killed at the hands of vigilanties or law enforcement, millions have taken to the streets with a clear and distinct call to end police violence and to defund police.

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https://map.sixnineteen.com/?source=web_module

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Juneteenth Week 2020 | Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle

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Join ULMS for a week of events highlighting the essence of black culture and community empowerment in celebration of Juneteenth Week 2020!

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8-midnight PDT

This week we celebrate Juneteeth by playing danceable songs by Black musicians from the '50s to today. Join us!
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/

DJ MD (Lisa) 8-10pm
DJ T-Cubed (Todd) 10pm-midnight

Tunes: http://www.theglowradio.com

See each other and type chat messages (use Tunes link above for audio): One-click on phone or PC
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81993903539?pwd=ZE9oU3pUZitIdmplNDhXdkxvdmVSQT09

Or via https://zoom.us
Meeting ID: 819 9390 3539
Password: 769466

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Juneteenth Live Streaming Music Festival

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Juneteenth Live Streaming Music Festival

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Jazz, RnB 6/19 6pm - 6/21 12am CDT

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Juneteenth Live Streaming Music Festival

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Music event in Fort Worth, TX by Jim Austin Online and 2 others on Friday, June 19 2020 with 2.4K people interested and 193 people going.

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Theater event in Oakland, CA by Big Apple Playback Theatre and Oakland Freedom Theater on Friday, June 19 2020

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Join us for our Virtual Juneteenth Celebration which will stream live at https://www.facebook.com/virtualjuneteenthcelebration!
The event will feature dozens of speakers, musicians, artists, poets, and performers from throughout the U.S. presenting a wide range of entertaining, thought-provoking, and educational topics geared to celebrate, inform, and uplift our nationwide black community.
So grab your BBQ, put on your red, black & green, and tune in whenever you can; you won't be disappointed!

Virtual Juneteenth Celebration

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Join us for our Virtual Juneteenth Celebration which will stream live at https://www.facebook.com/virtualjuneteenthcelebration! The event will feature dozens of speakers, musicians, artists, poets, and performers from throughout the U.S. presenting a wide range of entertaining, thought-provoking, and educational topics geared to celebrate, inform, and uplift our nationwide black community.

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A Marketplace Uplifting Cooperative Economics

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"Songs of Freedom" Black Music Month Marathon

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"Songs of Freedom" Black Music Month Marathon

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June is Black Music Month and we are celebrating the healing and transformative power of black music with a 10-hour virtual music marathon.

"Songs of Freedom" will celebrate local artists and the essential spaces that welcome their freedom of expression.  This is a fundrasier to support our musical family and the reopening of a critical cultural space, Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen.

Join us on Juneteenth (June 19) from 12 PM - 10 PM for a day filled with live performances streaming to you virtually from Darryl's Corner Bar and Kitchen.  Don't miss DJ Val Beatz spinning the classics in between sets throughout the day.  The 10-hour line up includes:
+ Black Owned (@Black.0wned)
+ Valerie Stephens (@ValerieStephens27)
+ Pat Loomis (@Pat.Loomis)
+ Gregory Groover Jr. (@GregGroover)
+ Sympli Whitney Productionz (@SympliWhitney)
+ The Christman Collective (@TheChristmanCollective)
+ Zeke Martin (@ZzMartin)

With a special tribute to our friend and flutist, the late great, Lance Martin --  featuring Jonathan Singleton, Joe Sumrell, Pat Loomis, and Zeke Martin.

The night wouldn't be complete without a finale by the Boston Music Award Winning NwaSoul (@nwasoul).

This is a virtual live music event. Virtual VIP tickets available for $25. VIP ticket holders will recieve a specialty cocktail kit available for pick up on Thursday, June 18th.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: BlackMusicMonthMarathon.eventbrite.com

Set a reminder and make sure you join us 12 PM - 10 PM. Stay tuned for updates at www.dcbkboston.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/2641519469442472/

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Meaningfully Ally with the Boston African American Community

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Meaningfully Ally with the Boston African American Community

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Juneteenth: #allyboston
Hosted by Afrimerican Culture Initiative Inc.

Fill out form to reserve a spot and get zoom link.

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Each year around June 19, Black communities across the country unite for a family reunion of sorts. Juneteenth activities feature the sights and sounds of Blackness: People enjoying art, music and food that connect them to a shared ancestry and history. They celebrate being their authentic selves. They celebrate freedom in both solemn and festive ceremonies.

This celebration marks a day in 1865 when enslaved Texans learned they'd be free-two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered and ended the Civil War and two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Initially a uniquely Texan observance, Juneteenth has now been recognized in some form in every corner of the country.

There are many ways to teach students about this celebration. Lessons about Juneteenth need to recognize the challenges those who fight injustice have always faced, but they shouldn't be marked only by the tragedy of enslavement. Students, particularly Black students, can find empowerment in the jubilant celebrations of culture, activism and the humanity of a people.

Teaching Juneteenth: Culture as Resistance

Although the truth had been hidden from them-and they continued to face threats of continued oppression, violence and death-a year after they learned of their freedom, formerly enslaved people resiliently rallied around that date and made the celebration an annual ritual. Early Juneteenth observances included a search for lost family members and an opportunity to uplift each other as they moved through hostile environments.

With this knowledge, students can also identify ways the descendants of the enslaved recapture and honor the cultures, customs and practices lost through slavery.

Early celebrations involved readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, religious ceremonies, singing, games and enjoying foods that enslaved people ate. Today, it doesn't look that much different. People retell histories, have family reunions, eat foods reminiscent of early Juneteenth celebrations such as barbeque, attend religious services or choir performances and have elaborate displays such as fancy dress and parades.

Teaching Juneteenth: Understanding Emancipation

That's why Juneteenth is more than an observance of freedom. It's also a time to share the experiences of those who fought- literally and figuratively-to seek true freedom for future generations. It's important that we don't whitewash this history.

A common mistake among those who teach the history of American slavery is to center the U.S. government's role in granting freedom while also placing the onus to navigate through a racist society solely on the formerly enslaved.

Perhaps many center Lincoln in this history because we tend to think of the Emancipation Proclamation, instead of the 13th Amendment, as ending slavery. Our 2018 Teaching Hard History report found that 59 percent of high school students couldn't correctly identify the latter as the legal end to slavery in the United States.

But it's important for students to know that enslaved people didn't willfully accept enslavement or wait for others to free them. They resisted often and consistently. While rare, violent rebellions did occur. Some people successfully escaped enslavement. And everyday acts of resistance, such as breaking tools or pretending to be ill were other ways enslaved people asserted their humanity.

While it certainly encouraged enslaved people to liberate themselves (letting them know they wouldn't be re-enslaved if they escaped behind Union lines), the Emancipation Proclamation didn't end U.S. slavery because it didn't apply to Union states. January 31, 1865 marks the day the 13th Amendment-which officially abolished slavery in the United States-was passed in Congress. Students need to know that there were people enslaved in Delaware until December 6, 1865, the day the 13th Amendment was finally ratified.

Juneteenth offers an opportunity to talk to students about this complex history. When you do, you can also talk about the progress and opposing forces that continue to threaten all of these milestones, even though they're protected by the Constitution of the United States.

Teaching Juneteenth: Backlash to Freedom

American history has often been reduced to a simple story of continuous progress. In this context, the Emancipation Proclamation represents an important turning point-the country coming to its senses and setting the course for concrete steps toward true equality.

But it's important for students to know that the announcement-and the celebration afterward-was short-lived and riddled with setbacks, including violence. For example, some enslavers intentionally waited until the harvest before they announced that the enslaved were freed.

And some people taking advantage of their freedom were met with terror or even death. Newly freed people didn't have protection until September 1865 with the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau, and even those efforts were often thwarted during Reconstruction.

As TT Associate Editor Julia Delacroix points out, "Students tend to think of the fight for civil rights as though there has always been a set list of hurdles to be overcome-slavery, then racial terror, then segregation, then disenfranchisement, then mass incarceration."

But we know that "racism takes the shape of whatever will hold it." Barriers to freedom weren't predestined, but they do confirm that there has always been a force to maintain racial hierarchy by pushing back against change.

In other words, with each attempt to bring justice and equality to all people, there is often a quick and fierce response. With each victory, there is yet another dueling force to conquer. The announcement of emancipation was no exception, and Juneteenth is a perfect opening to invite students to think about the "story of America" they often hear.

Teaching Juneteenth: American Ideals

It's not too challenging to ask students to consider what Juneteenth tells us about our ideas about the United States. After all, another holiday-July Fourth-is in the shadow of Juneteenth. It's a time when Americans are encouraged to rejoice in its independence...and freedom.

Students might recognize a paradox with July Fourth celebrations. They might question how a country could have touted the idea of freedom and liberty for all while also oppressing and treating an entire group of people as property. Those celebrations of independence went on for 89 years before the United States abolished slavery.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass acknowledged this as "inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony" during his July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, New York.

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Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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http://blackheritagetrailnh.org/2020-juneteenth-celebration-food-for-the-body-food-for-the-soul/

There is more of a connection between food, culture, and our soul than we may think.

2020 Juneteenth Celebration

of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire

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This year, we are taking our eighth annual Juneteenth event online to honor the contributions of Black creatives, scholars and artists to the City of Boston. Juneteenth is the oldest nationally observed commemoration of the ending of slavery in the U.S. We wish to commemorate this day with joy and resolve as we strive for justice and liberty in the continued fight for equity.

The event, streamed on Facebook and YouTube, will feature:

• The City Talks: Juneteenth Every Day, a panel discussion moderated by Makeeba McCreary, Patti and Jonathan Kraft Chief of Learning and Community Engagement, and featuring artist Rob "Problak" Gibbs, The Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker, and trillfit CEO Heather White

• Storytime with artist and children's book illustrator Ekua Holmes, who will read "Black Is a Rainbow Color" by Angela Joy

• Art making led by artist and educator Chanel Thervil Artworks and inspired by Roberto Lugo's "Law and Order: The Reincarnation of Frederick Douglass" (2017) from the MFA's collection

• Spotlight Talk with artist Roberto Lugo, moderated by Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts

• Recitations of speeches, poems and song lyrics by participants in the MFA's teen programs

• Performances by Débo Ray and DJ Where's Nasty, curated by BAMS Fest

Sponsored by @Chase. The City Talks is presented with support from the Dori H. Rahbar and Cameron R. Rahbar Fund.

The typeface for the word "Juneteenth" in our graphic was designed by Tré Seals of Vocal Type Co., who was inspired by historic imagery of protest signs from the 1963 March on Washington to create the letterforms. Seals named the typeface "Bayard," after civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

https://www.facebook.com/events/187530392533148/

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Juneteenth 2020 - Music to Celebrate Our Ancestors

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Juneteenth 2020 - Music to Celebrate Our Ancestors

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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2Ay0_13LQYypGjsSEv52ww?fbclid=IwAR1G_sddiMdqwznOvt-aeFV7Ehf9cP-KFFtKbNv6zCxGHafdi0aoQ7pxJpQ

With a focus on the history of Soul Food and Soul Music, this year’s Juneteenth Celebration offers a series of engaging, informative, and entertaining programs that examine the connection between food and historical events in the Black community.

Music: It feeds the soul, fuels the body, inspires artists, influences politics, and impacts just about every part of our lives.

For this commemorative event, live streaming from the Portsmouth African Burying Ground, members of the African drumming and dance group Akwaaba Ensemble and Rev. Robert Thompson will honor the ancestors who survived the Middle Passage with traditional songs and dance.

https://www.facebook.com/events/306387523695098/

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Friday 7:50pm http://brooklineinteractive.org/live/

This event is mostly virtual with a key difference of participation and performances. The purpose of this event is to one, shed light on what Juneteenth means and is as a Holiday, and to shed light on the racism and police brutality black peoples face everyday.

The light also symbolizes support. Lanterns in windows were used as indicators to help give slaves a safe passage to freedom. So show your support, there will absolutely be protests on this day, and letting that light on your porch or window, lets people know you are with them.

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Boston Area In-Person Events (Not Virtual)

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Boston Area In-Person Events (Not Virtual)

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Black Lives Matter Rally Dorchester, Friday, 6/19, 2-5pm - 1565 Dorchester Ave

There is an ask to bring extra posters and stay to help clean up!

M4BL March to Defend Black Lives, Saturday, 6/20, 1-4pm - Cambridge Common

Juneteenth Means Fight For Justice! Boston Speakout and March Sunday, 6/21, 4-6:30pm. - Franklin Park

Juneteenth for Rayshard Brooks! Monday, 6/22, 2pm, 2-5pm Reggie Lewis Center to State House

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Juneteenth - A Virtual Celebration in ASL

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Juneteenth - A Virtual Celebration in ASL

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Juneteenth - A Virtual Celebration in ASL

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Other event by Bay Area Black Deaf Advocates on Friday, June 19 2020

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Actitons Requested/Suggested  - Small Ways to Contrigue

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Actitons Requested/Suggested  - Small Ways to Contrigue

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TODAY! Call Marty Walsh and demand he defund the Boston Police Department and redirect funding to youth jobs.The tool will give you background information, then when you're ready send you a call to connect you! Make sure to sign this petition with the same demands.

Sign this petition to support Families for Justice As Healing's demands to defund the police and redirect that funding into Black and Brown communities.

Not in Boston? Sign this petition to demand a community meeting with Governor Baker to demand he not invest in more prisons and jails.

Join SURJ Boston for our Wednesday 12-1pm action hours and THIS Thursday (6/18) join us for an Abolition Hour focused specifically on prison and police abolition work.

Join our Housing Justice group for a teach in on Saturday, 12-2 to build the movement for rent control - we have to build the alternatives to police and prison now!

Want to develop skills applicable to street actions? Express your interest here - we will be in touch with details when and if particular trainings come up.

Donate to the Maine Lobster Feed to keep funding long haul grass roots, Black and brown led organizing in a time of economic collapse