Happy Junteenth!

[sonias]

Lots of Junteenth celebrations in and around Austin today and this weekend. Parades, museum tours, run/walk event, BBQ, band competition, kids events and music.

juneteenthcentraltexas.com

Austin Chronicle Junteenth event listings

Austin 360.com
Juneteenth African American Tribute Weekend w/ Jeff Lofton
Friday 6:30 p.m. Central Market Cafe (north)
In South Carolina, The Jeff Lofton Quartet had a strong local following from its two-year stint on Friday nights at Meritage in the Vista and performances at Mac’s on Main. Lofton is also well known for the Jazz Therapy Jazz Quintet featuring himself and Skip Pearson performing on Sundays at the club Group Therapy. Other groups Lofton has played with include Defellas (an avant guard jazz group), Deja Voodoo (a hip hop/jazz fusion group) and Wadada (a reggae group).

:party: :woohoo: :toast:


Sonia

[sonias]

1. Helping celebrate Juneteenth with art - Houston

Houston Chronicle 6/18/09
Helping celebrate Juneteenth with art


Growing up in Athens, a small town about 75 miles southeast of Dallas, Charles Criner celebrated Juneteenth but didn’t know why.
(snip)

That’s why every year he creates a poster to mark Juneteenth celebrations. The posters are printed free of charge by Heidelberg, a manufacturer of printing presses, and distributed throughout Houston.



Free copies of this year’s poster are available while supplies last...

Locations at the link above.

:applause:


Sonia

[sonias]

2. Juneteenth a time to recall chains broken- San Antonio

San Antonio Express 6/19/09
Juneteenth a time to recall chains broken

The city's Juneteenth events have grown exponentially over the years and now include celebrations on the San Antonio River, a festival at Comanche Park, re-enactments in front of the Davis-Scott YMCA and a parade down North New Braunfels Street.

Together and apart, organizers hope they all reach one goal, to remember "what it was like before we were free," said Vera Young, co-chair of Saturday's Juneteenth Freedom Coalition parade, which begins at 10 a.m. at Commerce and New Braunfels streets.

In Texas, Juneteenth, a state holiday, holds special significance as it marks the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced the end of the Civil War and of the enslavement of millions of black men, women and children.

Specifically, on June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger read President Abraham Lincoln's General Order No. 3, freeing slaves. By December of that year, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery. Both events followed Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to slaves in Confederate-controlled areas, by two years.

www.juneteenthsanantonio.com

:toast:

Sonia

[underpants]

3. Indeed Happy Juneteenth to us all

:hi: