How will Juneteenth 2009 be celebrated by those who are interested?
Here is today’s schedule: JUNETEENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY NATIONAL DAY OF RECONCILIATION & HEALING FROM THE LEGACY OF ENSLAVEMENT National Juneteenth Prayer Breakfast 8:30am Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Chairman National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council Speaker: Pastor Jack Gaines, Author “My Brother’s Keeper Not My Brother’s Killer” National Press Club 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC ———————————————————————————– National Juneteenth Black Holocaust “MAAFA” Memorial Service and National Juneteenth Prayer Service 11:30am Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Chairman National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council Speakers: Pastor Jack Gaines, Author “My Brother’s Keeper, Not My Brother’s Killer” Pastor Johnnie Hunter, National Director L.E.A.R.N. Pastor Randy Skinner, Director Urban Mission Dallas, TX “Reading of the Names” (Victims of Lynchings in America) Presentation of the Dr. James Cameron National Juneteenth Lead
Celebrating Juneteenth is about much more than a chance to gather for a party full of music, food and dance. “Juneteenth is about realizing how far we’ve come, how much God has blessed us to come from slavery to the point where we are,” said Yahya Abdullah, co-chair of the 2009 Juneteenth Committee of the Freedomway Business Association. The association held its seventh annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday at Susan B. Anthony Square. Juneteenth is an observance of the end of slavery in the United States. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was effective Jan. 1, 1863, it was not until June 19, 1865, that word of the proclamation reached the last of the enslaved in Galveston, Texas. Throughout the daylong event, more than 2,000 people packed into the square to visit booths set up by West Main Street and other Rochester-area businesses, listen to hip-hop, watch the Mighty Liberators Drum and Bugle Corps drum line, hear poets and local R&B bands and learn a few history lessons. Sou
