The Black & Brown Community of The North Coast would like to thank our 2024 sponsors, donors, partners, collaborators and community for creating such a beautiful Juneteenth 2024!!
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Help us bring Juneteenth to Eureka June 2025!!
This Community celebration will create safe inclusive spaces for the Black and BIPOC community. As well as create safe spaces for meaningful conversations around race, equity and inclusion. This day celebrates diversity, community and Black liberation. Platforms and highlights BIPOC community members, entrepreneurs and businesses and raises funds for Black Humboldt & The NAACP’s Juneteenth Black Business Fund.
This holiday is one that is very important and empowering for Black and Brown communities all over the United States but especially for Humboldt County, as Black people currently only make up 2% of the population. Support the BIPOC community to create and maintain representation as an equal part of the Humboldt County community.
Support Black & Brown efforts and organizing.
Support county wide conversations around race, equity and inclusion.
Create employment and monetary opportunities for the BIPOC Community.
It’s never too early to get involved with Juneteenth 2025!!!
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This Juneteenth celebration is an all day, community wide, event celebrating freedom, diversity and community. The event features local Black, venders, workshop facilitators, music, performances and informational Knowledge for Power sessions. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States, celebrating that day in history, June 19th 1865.
This holiday is very important and empowering for the Black communities all over the united states, but especially for Humboldt County, as this community makes up a very small percentage of the population and is often oppressed as a result. Black history is a part of The United States’ history and is important to celebrate as we create safe spaces and inclusion for the Black community in Humboldt County. Through this celebration Humboldt County will be able to create and maintain space for Black communities to flourish as well as feel as they are a part of a community that is oftentimes very divided. This is a learning opportunity to highlight American history as well as an opportunity to create a legacy for the Black & Brown community of the North Coast.
Past Juneteenth Performers
Founder, Dionna Fletcher and Co-founder, Mo Harper-Desir at Black Humboldt’s 2019 Juneteenth Celebration.
Local Humboldt Business owners, Levia Love and Jessica McGruder, at Black Humboldt’s 2019 Juneteenth Celebration.
WHat is juneteenth and what does it celebrate?
“Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance.
Later attempts to explain this two and a half year delay in the receipt of this important news have yielded several versions that have been handed down through the years. Often told is the story of a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news of freedom. Another, is that the news was deliberately withheld by the enslavers to maintain the labor force on the plantations. And still another, is that federal troops actually waited for the slave owners to reap the benefits of one last cotton harvest before going to Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. All of which, or neither of these version could be true. Certainly, for some, President Lincoln's authority over the rebellious states was in question For whatever the reasons, conditions in Texas remained status quo well beyond what was statutory”. Reference: http://juneteenth.com/history.htm
Official Juneteenth Poem
"Juneteenth is a day of reflection, a day of renewal, a pride-filled day. It is a moment in time taken to appreciate the African American experience. It is inclusive of all races, ethnicities and nationalities - as nothing is more comforting than the hand of a friend."
"Juneteenth serves symbolically, and in reality, as a reference point from which to measure and appreciate the progress and contributions made by African Americans to this society."
"Juneteenth is a day on which honor and respect is paid for the sufferings of slavery. It is a day on which we acknowledge the evils of slavery and its aftermath. On Juneteenth we talk about our history and realize because of it, there will forever be a bond between us."
"On Juneteenth we think about that moment in time when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas received word of their freedom. We imagine the depth of their emotions, their jubilant dance and their fear of the unknown."
"Juneteenth is a day that we commit to each other the needed support as family, friends and co-workers. It is a day we build coalitions that enhance African American economics."
"On Juneteenth we come together young and old to listen, to learn and to refresh the drive to achieve. It is a day where we all take one step closer together - to better utilize the energy wasted on racism. Juneteenth is a day that we pray for peace and liberty for all."
Reference: http://juneteenth.com/history.htm