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JUNETEENTH, A FREEDOM CELEBRATION – Symposium – JUNE 14, 2019
June 14, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration June 14 – 16, 2019
As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment. – Dr. Molefi Kete AsanteJune 14 • The Symposium featuring Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
Dr. Asante is a professor of American American Studies at Temple University and president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies in Philadelphia. In coining “Afrocentricity,” he says:
“I chose the term Afrocentricity to emphasize the fact that African people had been moved off of our own terms for the past four hundred years. In other words, Africans were not simply removed from Africa to the Americas, but Africans were separated from philosophies, languages, religions, myths and cultures.
Finding a way to relocate or to reorient our thinking was essential to the presentation of African cultural reality. In fact, without such a reorientation, Africans have nothing to bring to the table of humanity but the experiences of Europeans, those who initially moved Africans off of social, cultural and psychological terms.”
June 15 • Independence Day Our Way
Come to this Independence Day backyard party! Enjoy music, games, shopping, food and history all laid out by the river in the sacred space of the Manchester Dock. At dusk, the Torch Lit Night Walk Along the Trail of Enslaved Africans.
June 16 • Homage to the Ancestors
Engage in African spirituality and thanksgiving at the African Burial Ground.