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I learned about it from a previous colleague who celebrated here in DC

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The strike through the 4th of July was of interest to me... and she helped me learn about it. Thank you, TAM!

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ONE DC and Juneteenth on Georgia are excited to announce our Juneteenth in DC 2018 events celebrating Black liberation and justice! Juneteenth is an annual celebration to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865. This is a time for us to reflect on our collective history of fighting for emancipation and equity, to celebrate and be joyful about our triumphs, and to recommit with passion and discipline to the current struggle for liberation.

Events

Saturday, June 16th - Juneteenth Jubilee Festivals featuring live music, speakers, local artists & vendors, live art, & more!

Sunday, June 17th - Faith & Liberation with faith-based institutions commemorating Juneteenth through sermons, evenings of prayer & community conversations throughout the week

Monday, June 18th - Buy Black Day highlighting local Black-owned businesses to shop at & Black-led organizations to support

Monday, June 18th - Black Workers & Wellness Center Open House - learn more about the programs & projects at the BWC to build racial & economic justice through popular education, promotion of sustainable employment, & the incubation of economic alternatives.

Tuesday, June 19th - Juneteenth Community Learning event featuring history of Juneteenth talk with historian C.R. Gibbs & conversations on community safety, reparations, and current state of the fight for liberation in DC. Co-sponsored with Stop Police Terror Project-DC, SURJ-DC, & DC Foodways.

Visit juneteenthdc.org for more info on events and to RSVP!
If you have a Juneteenth event you would like us to highlight, email [email protected]

Sponsorships

We are currently looking for sponsors! By , you not only guarantee the success of Juneteenth in DC 2018 and future Juneteenth events, but you bring the ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center closer to our goal of transforming our newly purchased building into a state-of-the-art member-led community & wellness space. Click here to donate as a sponsor or send a check to ONE DC, PO Box 26049, Washington, DC 20001. Sponsorship gratitude packages include commemorative Juneteenth posters and t-shirts, books authored by ONE DC members & supporters, and special perks at our Juneteenth events.

Vendors & Partners

We invite community partners, grassroots organizations, local businesses, artists & craftspeople, food vendors, and others to join us on Saturday, June 16th for our all-day Juneteenth Jubilee Festivals taking place in Anacostia and Bruce Monroe Park (outdoor locations). Vendors will be able to table, do outreach to hundreds of local community members, and sell items.
Click here for more information and to sign up as a vendor or tabling partner.
Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, outreach, communications, vendor/partner coordination, and general logistics and planning. We will also need volunteers the day of the events. Click here to sign up to volunteer.

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ONE DC and Juneteenth on Georgia are excited to announce our Juneteenth in DC 2018 events celebrating Black liberation and justice! Juneteenth is an annual celebration to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865.

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Descendants of "former slaves" in Texas, united and purchased lands to have a place to honor their history

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Descendants of "former slaves" in Texas, united and purchased lands to have a place to honor their history

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Emancipation Park Conservancy - Emancipation Park Conservancy

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In 1938-39, the Great Depression's Public Works Administration (PWA) constructed on the park site, a recreation center, swimming pool and bathhouse designed by prolific Houston architect William Ward. The landscape plan, by Hare & Hare of Kansas City, Missouri, was rendered in pencil on tissue paper. It was originally drawn.. Read More

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History reservations & rentals Interested in hosting an event at Emancipation Park Conservancy? Private events may be held in several areas. Please call the phone numbers provided to learn more. Ballfield Reserverations: 832.394.8804Park Permits: 832.394.8805 Learn more about permits & reservations Subscribe to our

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The National Cathedral is having an art installation and event, will head up there with the family to reflect and learn.
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THE AFTERPARTY!

Juneteenth Unityfest Merch!

Watch Juneteenth Unityfest Live

Watch on Ebony

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Watch On Youtube

Robert Randolph Foundation

Register for Opal's Walk for Juneteenth

National Juneteenth Observance Foundation

Ebony Press

Rolling Stone Press

Variety Press

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My father taught me about Juneteenth when I was a child

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https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/carmichael-stokely-kwame-ture-1941-1998/

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Courtesy MOHAI (1986.5.21041)

A civil rights leader, antiwar activist, and Pan-African revolutionary, Stokely Carmichael is best known for popularizing the slogan " Black Power," which in the mid-1960s galvanized a movement toward more militant and separatist assertions of black identity, nationalism, and empowerment and away from the liberal, interracial pacifism of Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC).

Carmichael was born in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. His family moved to New York City, New York when he was eleven. He showed promise as a young student and was accepted into the mostly white Bronx High School of Science in 1956. He attended Howard University and joined the newly formed Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC) in 1960. He participated in SNCC sit-ins and Freedom Rides throughout the Deep South, and when SNCC turned its attention to voter registration, Carmichael led the campaign that established the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a symbolic forerunner to the Black Panther Party.

In 1964, Carmichael graduated from Howard and, along with other young SNCC activists, became increasingly frustrated with the movement's reliance on white liberals and its advocacy of non-violent reform, especially in the wake of the Democratic Party's betrayal of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In May 1965, Carmichael was elected to replace John Lewis as SNCC chairman, formalizing the shift in SNCC's ideology. During a 1966 march in Mississippi, Carmichael first proclaimed "Black Power." The slogan, and Carmichael's subsequent efforts to both define it and put it into practice, turned him into a media celebrity and a lightning rod for white criticism and government repression. "Black Power" fragmented the liberal civil rights coalition of the 1950s and early 1960s but inspired subsequent groups such as the Black Panther Party, which, despite ideological disagreements, named Carmichael as its Honorary Prime Minister in 1968.

Carmichael spent the last decades of his life abroad, denouncing U.S. racism and imperialism while working to build the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party. He changed his name to Kwame Ture in 1968, in honor of his friends and political allies, Pan-African leaders Sekou Touré and Kwame Nkrumah. In 1969, Ture settled permanently in Conakry, Guinea where he died of prostate cancer in 1998.

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Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (1941-1998)

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Courtesy MOHAI (1986.5.21041) A civil rights leader, antiwar activist, and Pan-African revolutionary, Stokely Carmichael is best known for popularizing the slogan " Black Power," which in the mid-1960s galvanized a movement toward more militant and separatist assertions of black identity, nationalism, and empowerment and away from the liberal, interracial pacifism of Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC).

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This time is an opportunity to reflect on how far the liberation movement has come. It is also a time to wrestle with the truth of our national history so we do not repeat the pain of the past. I think celebration is important because it provides me strength to keep moving.

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https://www.goldenwestcollege.edu/rising/juneteenth/index.html

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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUNETEENTH
By Avery Caldwell
What does Juneteenth celebrate?
Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the freedom of the slaves in the United States. The name Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteenth. The day is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day.
When is Juneteenth celebrated?
June 19th
Who celebrates this day?
The day is celebrated in the United States mostly by African-Americans. It is most celebrated in the state of Texas where it has been an official state holiday since 1980. Many other states recognize the day as either an official holiday or observance.
What do people do to celebrate?
There are a number of different ways that people celebrate the day including parades, marches, and barbecues. Many people get together for ceremonies that include public service awards, prayer, and the raising of the Juneteenth Flag.

Government and educational facilities will often have programs or information regarding the history of the holiday and the Emancipation Proclamation. It's also a time for African-Americans to celebrate their heritage.
History of Juneteenth
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. It went into effect on January 1, 1863. However, slaves were not set free in the Confederacy until Union army was able to come in and take over. On June 18, 1865 the Union army arrived in Galveston, Texas. The next day, June 19th, General Gordon Granger announced that the slaves in Texas were free by order of the president of the United States.

The former slaves in Galveston celebrated the day that they were set free. The first Juneteenth celebration took place the very next year.

The annual celebration began to spread throughout Texas and surrounding states. However, it became less popular in the early 1900's. It became popular once again in the 1950's and 1960's. In 1980 it became an official state holiday in Texas. There is currently a movement to get the day recognized on a national level.
Fun Facts About Juneteenth

It is the oldest known holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the US.

Juneteenth is the title of a book by author Ralph Ellison. Other books by Carolyn Meyer and Ann Rinaldi also center around the day.

Some cities and groups have Miss Junteenth contests.

Strawberry soda pop was once a popular drink associated with celebrating the day.

There is a Juneteenth Flag of Freedom. It is half red and half blue with a star in the middle. Each year a Juneteenth Flag raising ceremony is held in Galveston.

HISTORY
Juneteenth.com: https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
What is Juneteenth?
PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/
VIDEOS History of Juneteenth
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi_53jihMM

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwe7pQPMcGo
What is Juneteenth?
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aQjTy328o
Juneteenth: Freedom At Last
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOguH71-E
ARTICLES What is Juneteenth?
The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html
Juneteenth: The 155-Year-Old Holidays History Explained
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/what-is-juneteenth-holidays-history-explained.html
How Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the US, finally became recognized as a holiday by major companies like Nike and Lyft and landed in the center of a Trump controversy
BusinessInsider.com: https://www.businessinsider.com/juneteenth-history-legacy-nike-twitter-company-holiday-trump-controversy-2020-6
What is Juneteenth? Holiday Marking Emancipation Proclamation Takes on Extra Importance in 2020
USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/13/what-juneteenth-holiday-celebrates-end-slavery-us/5333204002/
12 Things You Might Not Know About Juneteenth
Mental Floss: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501680/12-things-you-might-not-know-about-juneteenth
MUSEUMS
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/

California African American Museum: https://caamuseum.org/

Buffalo Soldiers Museum: https://www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com/

Museum of African Diaspora: https://www.moadsf.org/

Museum of African American History: https://www.maah.org/

National Center for Civil and Human Rights: https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/

New Orleans African American Museum: https://www.noaam.org/

Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture: https://lewismuseum.org/

Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum: https://visitingmontgomery.com/play/rosa-parks-library-museum-childrens-wing

Old Slave Mart Museum: http://theoldslavemartmuseum.org/

National Civil Rights Museum: https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park: https://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm
EVENTS
Juneteenth Week of Celebrations: https://www.utdallas.edu/multicultural/programs-and-services/cultural-celebrations/juneteenth-celebration/

Juneteenth: 10 virtual, In-person Events Happening Across the Houston Area: https://www.click2houston.com/features/2020/06/15/juneteenth-10-virtual-in-person-events-happening-across-the-houston-area/

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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUNETEENTH By Avery Caldwell What does Juneteenth celebrate? Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the freedom of the slaves in the United States. The name Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteenth. The day is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day. When is Juneteenth celebrated?