The 31st annual juneteenth committee Lakeland
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Juneteenth Community Observance
Juneteenth Community Observance: A free celebration of freedom and community, honoring African American achievements and providing education and healing. Featuring a program, hair fashion show with Stylist Nedra Butler, Barber Ken Davis II, and performances by Crystal World of Dance, CEO, Crystal Brown-Davs. Saturday, June 17, 2023, from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Donation: $10.00. Coleman-Bush Building, 1104 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Lakeland 33805. Call 863-271-3386, with questions.
JUNETEENTH POLK COUNTY Inaugural Film Festival
JUNETEENTH POLK COUNTY Inaugural Film Festival, Saturday, July 1st, 2023, 11 A.M. - 8 P. M. Q&A and Reception 7- 8:00 P.M. @ POLK STATE COLLEGE, Lakeland Campus Films and Times TBA Juneteenth marks the nation’s second Independence Day and should be a national pride as a significant milestone in American history. This year, we will help create the platform as the nation to come together to celebrate Juneteenth and host one of the largest Juneteenth Observance on Wall Street in New York and at the White House on June 19th. Juneteenth observance is a Reflection of America’s History. Contacts: Doris Moore Bailey - 863-816-6480 juneteenthlkld21@gmail.com George Lawrence -
NJOF southeast Region 6
"None Are Free Until All Are Free!"
Doris Moore Bailey
Region 6 Director: AL/FL/GA/NC/SC
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“To bring all Americans together to celebrate our common bond of freedom through the recognition, observance, education and historic preservation of Juneteenth in America.”
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Locally, the official and legal Juneteenth Committee began its observance in 1992, after the Dr. Alzo J. Reddick, Sr., authored Juneteenth legislation which was signed into law by then Governor Lawton Chiles, in May 1991. Doris Moore Bailey, family and the Juneteenth Committee have moved the Juneteenth agenda forward honoring community outstanding citizens, helped you via scholarships, sponsored businesses trips, trips for seniors and youth. Provided bicycle to youth at Harmony and New Bethel AME Churches. Provided authors books to KHS and established a Book scholarship via the Polk County Education Foundation. Juneteenth Lakeland sponsored Rodeos at Combee Arena for five years. Rodeo horsemen/woman came in from GA/SC/TX, and throughout Florida.
Was responsible for the implementation of the Polk County Buffalo Soldiers re-enactment with members Beverly Bailey and Doris Moore Bailey, hosting Memorial Day Observance at Buffalo Soldiers Campsite at Lake Wire.
Rev. Dr. Ron Myers celebrates Juneteenth with Tougaloo community - YouTube
Juneteenth Corvette Car Show
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Juneteenth's Legacies
Minister John Mosley Sr. - LA
NEW ORLEANS — Minister John Mosley first learned of Juneteenth in 1990.
Learn MoreJohn Thompson
John Thomson is the founder of Juneteenth America merged with all the Juneteenth Organizations, and elected Reverend Ronld V. Myers, MD, as NJOF President.
Learn MoreReverend Ronald V. Myers Sr., NJOF first elected president.
Served as NJOF president until he transitioned in 2018. Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. (born February 29, 1956 – September 7, 2018) was an American physician, Baptist minister, musician, and civil rights activist. He was the founder and chairman of several organizations active in the modern movement to promote the holiday Juneteenth. He worked in the field of medicine, providing care to poor rural residents of the American South. He also performed as a jazz musician. Personal life and education Myers was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of two sons, to Marion Mack Myers and Neoma R. Myers. The Myers family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when his parents became employed as teachers in the Milwaukee Public Schools. He attended Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. He was a soloist in the high school jazz ensemble on trumpet and piano. Myers attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in African American Studies and was a member of the Experimental Improvisational Black Music Ensemble, under the mentorship of trombonist and professor Jimmy Cheatham. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1985 and completed his residency in Family Medicine at LSU Medical Center's Washington St. Tammany Parish Charity Hospital in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1988. He took part-time courses at Reformed Theological Seminary at Mississippi Valley State University in 1989 and 1990.
Learn MoreBen Haith
The Juneteenth flag was designed by activist Ben Haith in 1997. Why is the Juneteenth flag curved? The flag’s colors — red, white and blue — were deliberately chosen by Haith to demonstrate that even throughout enslavement, African Americans were always American. Today, many continue use the symbolic Pan African colors: Red, Black, and Green. Some add Gold too.
CEO Steve Williams
Regional Director and State DirECTORS
South East region 6 State Directors
Brenda Ward
Alabama State Director
Bob Johnson
Georgia State Director
Phyllis Coley
North Carolina State Director
Dr. Elizabeth Castle
South Carolina State Director
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On behalf of The African American Chamber of Commerce Polk County and Juneteenth Committee, I solicit your support as we approach TAACCPC’s 4th year, and I invite you to partner with us as we host our first annual African American Emphasis Month Gala, honoring CEO Emeritus Mrs. W. Gaye Williams, Central Florida Health Care, who was Central Florida Health Care, Inc.’s third CEO from 1993-2013, and their first African American to serve in that leadership role. During her tenure, Mrs. W. Gaye Williams grew the organization and expanded healthcare centers in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties. She is also an independent healthcare consultant.Read More
- Date: 2/11/2023 06:00 PM - 2/11/2023 09:00 PM
- Location: the Winter Haven Garden Center, 715 3 Rd Street NW, Winter Haven, Florida 33881 (Map)
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MAAFA
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Maafa is a Kiswahili for term meaning "Great Disaster. It has come to be associated with the era of the European and Arab slave trade. The resulting effect on African people: over 100 million people lost their lives and their descendants have been systematically and continuously assaulted through institutionalized anti-Africanism.
Ubuntu is the opposite of Maafa and was the dominant paradigm in Africa leading up to it.
Examples of the Maafa include Jim Crow segregation, lynching, apartheid, colonialism, neo-colonialism, lynching, forced sterilizations, slavery, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and Stockholm syndrome.
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Juneteenth Region 6 Zoom Meeting at 7:30 P.M. E.T, 6:30 P.M. C.T. "All Thing Juneteenth" - None Are Free Until All Are Free. Juneteenth 2022 Theme: Honoring The Founding Father The USCT. " Ya''ll FREE!" Alabama/Florida/Georgia/North Carolina/South Carolina
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- Dali - Slender mustaches with the tips curved upwards, though not over the eyebrows
- English - Another slender style, with the tips only slightly raised
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The Juneteenth Committee Lakeland will host the 32nd Annual Observance beginning Friday, June 14 and throughout Saturday, June 15, culminating with its' second Florida Arts and Film Festival in Lakeland in July 2024. This highly anticipated event commemorates Juneteenth, a significant milestone in African American history, marking the 159 years of emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Film makers can submit their films via Film Freeway.