By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter —
OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma Metropolis will rejoice Juneteenth in model with a two-day, family-friendly occasion that includes reside music, interactive murals, dance performances, spoken phrase, schooling tents, meals vans, distributors, and native small companies, who’re the spine of the Eastside neighborhood, organizers stated.
The Juneteenth on the East Pageant will happen on Saturday, June 19, from 3 – 9 pm on Northeast twenty third Road between Kelham Avenue and Hood Road. On Sunday, June 20 there might be a cookout at 6 p.m. and a movie screening at 8 p.m.
Juneteenth, a celebration of emancipation from slavery, started as a result of Normal Gordon Granger of the U.S. Military proclaimed the top of bondage in Texas on June 19, 1865. Emancipation got here to slaves of the Indian nations, within the territory that grew to become Oklahoma, at totally different instances throughout the summer time of 1865.
Ralph Ellison, the well-known African American author born in Oklahoma Metropolis in 1914, wrote a novel titled Juneteenth that was revealed in 1999 after his dying.
Juneteenth on the East, produced by With Love OKC, is hosted by a committee of neighborhood leaders who’ve volunteered their time to deliver a celebration of Black Liberation to Oklahoma Metropolis.
Activist and rapper Jabee Williams, Scissortail Park, Oklahoma Mural Syndicate, the Dialog Workshops, Haitian-American artist, producer, author, and lecturer Marie Casimir, NEOKC Renaissance, and others hope to offer Oklahoma Metropolis residents with an expertise they solely dreamed of as youngsters, organizers stated.
“Please be a part of us on this celebration of freedom and placemaking whereas highlighting the historical past of Emancipation in the US,” Jabee stated. “Juneteenth reminds us that liberation is just not a one-time occasion. Relatively, it’s an ongoing strategy of preventing for and gaining again primary human dignity.
“Black individuals in the US obtained a primary style of liberation on June 19, 1865 after over 400 years of enslavement, exploitation, and denial of humanity. June nineteenth now marks an annual celebration of Juneteenth,” he added.
“At the moment, we rejoice the Black neighborhood’s management in cultural revolutions and a strong willpower to rejoice, collect, create, dance, sing, and reside in ample pleasure,” Jabee continued. “This pleasure is just not reliant on bodily or systemic circumstances; as an alternative, the flexibility to face up to oppression with laughter and levity is locked deep inside Black tradition and genetic reminiscence.
“We’re excited to announce this yr’s headliner would be the Sa Roc (Assata Perkins)
who’s arguably some of the vibrant MCs on this planet in the present day,” Jabee stated. “Her crisp articulation, fiery supply, and her elevated and insightful lyricism has typically positioned her throughout the identical dialog of a few of Hip Hop’s most notable artists.”
As soon as dubbed by Okayplayer as “some of the formidable microphone professionals within the recreation,” Sa-Roc is an artist for a socially acutely aware era. In 2016, Sa-Roc signed with the Rhymesayers label and has thrived inside that partnership, Jabee famous.
In that point, she has launched a string of highly effective music movies, together with “Deliverance”, “Hand of God”, “Goddess Gang”, and “Endlessly”, which has garnered over 4 million views on YouTube.
Her debut on the world-renowned NPR Tiny Desk At House sequence led followers to explain her merely as “the reality” and technically “the most effective lyricist in current instances.”
Jabee added, “Her album, The Sharecropper’s Daughter, by which the title pays homage to her father’s expertise rising up sharecropping tobacco, is in Sa-Roc’s personal phrases ‘a sonic reflection on the generational inheritance of trauma and triumph that shapes our humanity and influences the best way we see the world.’
“At a time the place individuals throughout the globe are calling for social change, Sa-Roc is an MC whose vitality and acutely aware lyrics are about to shake up the rap recreation and remind us all that Hip Hop was at all times about giving a voice to the individuals,” Jabee stated.
The pageant will even characteristic Los Angeles primarily based poet, political activist, educational, and emcee Propaganda.
“We’re very excited to deliver two artists of this caliber with reputations for being advocates for justice and equality to our Juneteenth on the East celebration,” Jabee stated.
For extra data or to develop into a sponsor, go to withloveokc.org/juneteenth.
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