Juneteenth
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The City of Winooski and Downtown Winooski present their annual event celebrating Juneteenth with music, speakers, performances, and more to explore!
On Sunday, June 18 at the Essex Experience Green, residents came together to celebrate Juneteenth by reflecting on the significance of this American holiday and enjoying music and entertainment from local artists Toussaint St. Negritude, DJ Cooper,...
Burlington celebrates Juneteenth in Battery Park with the Black Health Panel - UVM Network.
Moderated by Adrianne Johnson Ross, MHA, President & COO, UVM Health Network – Home Health & Hospice
Featured panelists:
Anthony Williams, MD,...
Winooski holds their first Juneteenth Celebration in Rotary Park.
BX22 is a community organized and supported event sponsored by Burlington-base nuwave Equity Corporation (nuwaveco.com).
The event features a focus on the three pillars of culture, community, and education and includes performances, presentations,...
City Hall Park comes to life with the Lake Champlain Mass Choir and band on the BCA Patio. A hundred and fifty lucky people get a seat at a table in the center of the park to enjoy a delicious southern brunch by Frank Pace of Great Northern.
Generations after the end of slavery in the United States, the complete promise of Juneteenth has yet to be fulfilled. Join four of Vermont’s Black leaders as they look back at 156 years since Emancipation, discuss the modern Black American...
Warning: The constitution of the State of Vermont has two exception clauses that permit slavery! The Black folks in Galveston were in the dark for two and a half years. Well, this language has been in the Vermont Constitution for 244 years!
Come get...
Readings from the winners of The Young Writer’s Project Juneteenth Youth Poetry Contest.
Representing Somalia, Tanzania and Burundi and currently living in Burlington, Vermont, A2VT synthesizes their native African musical and dance roots with Western pop and Hip Hop sensibilities. Their songs, performed in up to eight unique languages...
Juneteenth: Living Liberation at the Statehouse. Recorded June 19, 2021.
Essex hosted its first-ever Juneteenth Celebration in 2021. We've compiled several highlights into a 3-minute video.
Tyeastia Green, Burlington's Director of Racial Equity Inclusion and Belonging, tells the story of Juneteenth and the inaugural celebration in Burlington in the summer of 2021.
Kesha Ram, Joy Dixon, and Hope Lindsay host a gathering and walk on Church Street in honor of Juneteenth, a month-long celebration that represents the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.
On June 14...
Join us as we celebrate Juneteenth. In 2008, Vermont became the 29th state in the nation to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday. Juneteenth is the oldest of African American holidays and commemorates the delayed notification (on June 19, 1865)...
Featured Story
CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!