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CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH with the BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL of NEW HAMPSHIRE

The Black Heritage Trail of NH opens its three-day celebration of Juneteenth, June 17 to 19, with a virtual workshop on Thursday, June 17, 2021, from 10am to 2:30pm, entitled “Finding Our Roots: Researching Black History and Genealogy.” Panelist Jessica Salow Panelist Charmaine Bonner Moderated by Kabria Baumgartner, Associate Professor of English at the University of NH, and author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (NYU Press, 2019), the…

Juneteenth Celebration

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Juneteenth is the oldest known nationally celebrated event commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” However, it was not until June 19th, 1865, two years later, when the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island in Texas and began a war against defenders of slavery that the enslaved people in Galveston,…

2020 Juneteenth Celebration

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2019 Juneteenth: Celebrating New England’s 18th Century “Negro Courts”

2019 Past News & Events, Juneteenth

Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 Juneteenth Celebration includes: Community Dialogue, Soul Food, Dramatic Readings, African Drumming & Dance, Gospel Music Concert Celebrating New England’s 18th Century “Negro Courts” Saturday, June 22, 2019 11:00 am-4pm & 7pm–8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Suggested Donation: $20 The bleakness and brutality of slave life was alleviated, in small measure, by the celebration of holidays. Most enslaved Africans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries looked forward to several holidays during…

Juneteenth historically proclaimed in New Hampshire

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By Hadley Barndollar
Posted Jun 19, 2018 at 2:34 PM | hbarndollar@seacoastonline.com
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu officially recognized Juneteenth in a historic proclamation Tuesday. It was the first time the state of New Hampshire has affirmed the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.

Black Heritage Trail celebrates Juneteenth

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By Karen Dandurant
news@seacoastonline.com
PORTSMOUTH — The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire held a daylong celebration of African American topics and culture for its annual celebration of Juneteenth on Saturday.

Valerie Cunningham, a founding member of BHTNH said Juneteenth is a holiday that began in Texas because that was where the final slaves were freed. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

2018 Juneteenth Celebration

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Law and Order: An American Dilemma 2018 Juneteenth Celebration includes: Community Dialogue, Soul Food, Black History Tour, African Drumming & Dance, African American Musical Montage Saturday, June 16, 2018 10:30 am-4pm & 7pm–8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Suggested Donation: $20 Over the last month, social media has turned a spotlight on multiple cases of racial discrimination. People of color, seen as targets of suspicion, have had the police called on them for simply doing…

Juneteenth Celebrated at African Burying Ground

2017 Past News & Events, Juneteenth

By Karen Dandurant news@seacoastonline.com/Posted Jun 17, 2017 PORTSMOUTH — As part of day-long activities Saturday celebrating Juneteenth and honoring the lives of Portsmouth slaves, a remembrance ceremony was held at the African Burying Ground Memorial Park on Chestnut Street. Juneteenth is a celebration in memory of the day slavery was abolished in a small Texas town, three months after the Civil War, on June 19, 1865. The local remembrance ceremony honored ancestors by talking about their lives. The first event was held…

2017 Juneteenth Celebration

2017 Past News & Events, Juneteenth

A Juneteenth Celebration The Art of Activism, Cultural Resistance & Everyday Protest Saturday, June 17, 11am-3pm & 7pm– 8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street. Join us for ART, FOOD, MUSIC, DIALOGUE & SONG. This year’s celebration features African American artists Joel Gill and Richard Hanes, vocalist Rev. Robert Thompson, actors Sandi Clark and Kevin Wade Mitchell and Drummer Robert Bellinger ….