JUNETEENTH 2022 THE DAY PARTY!

210 South Washington Street,Seattle WA 98104

19 June, 2022

Description

You must be Black or an Ally for Black Lives and also 21+ to attend this event! Listen, if you are an ally who wants to help Black folks celebrate the resilience and survival of our ancestors… Buy Black (this event). Read Black authors. Go to a museum that features Black cultural contributions. Buy Black art. Defend and support Black colleagues who are being marginalized in your work place. Celebration of Freedom that is, 'JUNETEENTH' -- through Food, Contemporary Art, Music and Dance. This is a Dance Party that offers Rest, Recognition and Reward to the Black and Afro community of all identities and allies alike. The historical legacy of Juneteenth and everything that we as a Black & Afro people have endured in this Country continues to prove the value of never giving up hope in uncertain times and that of Black Excellence. Black People : You Deserve Rest! Black People : You Deserve Freedom to simply Exist! Black People : You Deserve to feel Safe EVERYWHERE! Black People : You Deserve all of the Blessings on Blessings on Blessings! Black People : You Deserve Love! Holding nothing back, you'll feel SAFE to get LOUD, RELAX, CUT A SMOOTH 2-STEP, SHAKE SUM, EXIST and ALL OF THE ABOVE in the name of Love and Never Giving up Hope with the sounds of Hip Hop, R&B, Afro-House, and Deep-House. by DJ Cheri'Amour and DJ BOP. "TO FREEDOM!!" - Nicki Minaj This event has Gender Neutral Restrooms and is Wheelchair Accessible ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than three million slaves living in the Confederate states to be free. But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas. The post-emancipation period known as Reconstruction (1865-1877) marked an era of great hope, uncertainty, and struggle for the nation as a whole. Formerly enslaved people immediately sought to reunify families, establish schools, run for political office, push radical legislation and even sue slaveholders for compensation. Given the 200+ years of enslavement, such changes were nothing short of amazing. Not even a generation out of slavery, African Americans were inspired and empowered to transform their lives and their country. Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. Although it has long celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.