The celebration continued throughout the afternoon with musical and dance performances, spoken word, food vendors, double Dutch and a bounce house. ALBA or ALBATCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America or the. We specialize in international content from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Haiti. “Those whose names you knew who are not touchable now with the hand, those whose names you knew and forgot, those whose names you never knew - remember those people as I pour cool water to the earth and ask for a fresh road in life,” Rucker said as he tossed water to the ground from a small metal bowl. Zeno.FM is the fastest and easiest way to listen and create streaming radio.
Percussionist and storyteller Baba Eric Rucker led in the tradition of pouring a libation. Who was it? It was us, and our ancestors at that time, and some of us still today - a disenfranchised enslaved population who, in league with the Constitution of the United States, freed themselves while helping to save the Union, now known as the United States of America.”Ĭloud then introduced two of her “favorite elders.”Īrtist and educator Ernestine Galloway shared poems on the meaning of Juneteenth and her own legacy of liberation, passed down through her mother and grandmother.
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