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Tags: 13th Amendment abolishing slavery • 14th Amendment • 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report • Alexander Crummell • annual celebration of emancipation from slavery in the United States • Army of the Trans-Mississippi • Austin Texas • Black folklore and cultural traditions • Black freedman • Black Reconstruction • Black society • Booker T. Washington Park in Mexia • Capitol Hill’s Visitor Center • Civil Rights Act of 1875 • Civil Rights Movement • Clifford Robinson of New Orleans • Confederate Heroes Day • Confederate states • Consumer Age • Coretta Scott King • D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton • David Blight • Decoration Day • Department of Texas • District of Columbia • Double V campaign • Emancipation Day • Emancipation Day observances • Emancipation Park in Houston • Emancipation Proclamation • former slave Susan Merritt • Frederick Douglass • Frederick Douglass statue • Freedmen’s Bureau • Galveston city • Gen. Robert E. Lee • Goddess of Liberty • great Black migration • Hayes Turner • Henry Louis Gates Jr. • historian Elizabeth Hayes Turner • historian Leon Litwack • Homer Plessy • Independence Day • Isabel Wilkerson • Jefferson Davis Day • Jim Crow • Judge Lewis Fisher of Galveston • Juneteenth • Juneteenth Day • Katie Darling • Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox • Lost Cause • Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger • Martin Luther King Jr. • Memorial Day • middle passage • National Black leaders • National Juneteenth Observance Foundation • Official Juneteenth Committee • Poor People’s March • post-Civil War period • President Lincoln • Ralph Ellison • Reconstruction • Reconstruction Era • Rep. Al Edwards of Houston • Rev. Ralph Abernathy • Rev. Ronald Meyers • Richmond Virginia fell • right of Blacks to citizenship • Rosa Parks • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • Sojourner Truth • Statuary Hall • Storer College • The Root • U.S. Capitol Visitor Center • U.S. Department of State • W.E.B. Du Bois • William H. Wiggins Jr. • “A Mild Suggestion” • “Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery” • “freed” Black men and women of Texas • “Juneteenth: Emancipation and Memory” • “Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas” • “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” • “Should Blacks Collect Racist Memorabilia?” • “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”

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Filed Under: Culture Stories
Tags: 35th Anniversary Ethnic Dance Festival • African American dramatists • African Orthodox Church • aka Baby Jack • Al Young • Al Young Day • All In One 2013 • All of Us or None • Ambassador Attallah Shabazz • American Sign Dance • Anna Deavere Smith • Ansel Hall • Antoine Hunter • Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers • Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center • Ava Bird • Avotcja • Avotcja Jiltonilro • Bay Area Theatre Company AfroSolo • Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir • Berkeley Public Library • Bill Doggett • Bruce Hopewell • California Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young • Carmen Flores • Cesar Chavez • Charles Fuller • Cheryl Davis • Colette Ewoi • Colman Domingo • Coretta Scott King • Damballah • Denise Levertov • Dexter Gordon • Diamano Coura Director Papa Zak Diouf • Diane di Prima • Don Reed • Dr. Marcus Foster • Dyer County Jail in Oakland • e.e. cummings • East 14th • east Africa • economic freedom • Edward K. Wong • El Hajj Malik • El Hajj Malik el Shabazz • El Wah Movement • Elder Freeman • Elder Ronald Freeman • Elie Wiesel • Emancipation Proclamation • Erin Davis • Federico García Lorca • Fela Kuti’s mother • Fela! • Foga na Ropa • fountain at Lake Merritt • Fox Theatre • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Frederick Douglass • Funmilayo • Gwendolyn Brooks • Hafiz • Haitian Kreyol • Harvey Milk • Helen Keller • Henry David Thoreau • Henry J. Kaiser • Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park • Ina Coolbrith • international and national humanitarians • Ise Lyfe • Jayne Cortez • Jazz Hudson • jazz studies program • Josie de la Cruz • Juneteenth • Juneteenth 2013 • Kabir • Kaiser Center’s rooftop garden • Kaiser Theatre • King Theo • Kirk Lumpkin • L.A. Chapter Black Panther Party • Lake Merritt Boulevard • Lam Center at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Laney College’s Department of Mexican and Latin-American Studies • Let Me Down Easy • libations for the ancestors • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Lorraine Hansbury Theatre • MacArthur Award-winning playwright • Malcolm Shabazz • Malcolm X • Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award • Mario Chiodo • Martin King • Matthew Wickett • Maxine Gordon • Maya Angelou • Measure DD Sunday • Melanie Marshall • Mercer Ellington Big Band • Miles Davis • Miles Davis Art Exhibit • Miles Davis Tribute Concert • Modupue • Mother Mary Ann Wright • Mother Teresa • Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts • Movement of the Spirit • Mulgrew Miller • Musician Marcus Shelby • Napa Valley Museum • Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater • Nelson Mandela • New York’s Second Stage Theater • Nicolás Guillén • Oakland Indies Awards • Oakland sculptor Mario Chiodo • Oakland’s Chinatown • One Pacific Coast Bank • Oscar Peterson • Oskar Schindler • Pat Parker • PieTisserie • poor and disenfranchised • President Obama • primacy of life • Push Dance Company • Quincy Jones • Rafael Jesús González • Rainier Maria Rilke • Raissa Simpson • Ralph Abernathy • rights of prisoners and former prisoners • Robert Graves • Robert Henry Johnson • Robert Henry Johnson’s 60 Million Plus Theater • Robinson Jeffers • Ron Carter • Royal Towns • Ruby Bridges • Rumi • San Francisco Bay View Opera House • San Francisco Main Library • Scott Gutterman • Shipyard Project • slave narratives • Social Changemaker Award • social justice pioneers and civil rights icons • Soul of Oakland Award • Soul of the City nominee • Steven Anthony Jones • TaSin Sabir • The Marsh • TheatreWorks • Thich Nhat Hanh • Tony Williams • Urban Jazz Dance Company • Vince Wilburn Jr. • visual artist Flo Oy Wong • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks broadcasts • Wanda’s Picks for June 2013 • Wardrobe for Opportunity • Weekend Four • Weekend Three • white supremacy • William Paterson • “A Dream Begun So Long Ago” • “A Soldier’s Play” • “An Evening With Anna Deavere Smith” • “Brighter than Blight” • “Can You Dig It? Back Down East 14th” • “Celebrating Juneteenth 2013 and the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation” • “Champions of Humanity” • “Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006” • “Evening with Miles” • “Gwah Guy: Crossing the Street” • “La musa lunatic” • “Miles Davis: The Art Of Cool” • “Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork” • “Nurse Jackie” • “Poetry Past and Present” • “Project One Voice” • “Remember Them: Champions for Humanity” • “Round Midnight” • “Sailing Away" • “Sonders” • “The Civil War at 150 Years: The Journey to Freedom” • “The Commission Project” • “The Kipling Hotel” • “The Lunatic Muse” • “The West Wing” • “UNLOCK” • “UNWOMAN and Benito Steen” • “Wild with Happy” • “With Every Step I Take" • •Afro-Futurism Artist Discussion • •Capoeira with Tammy • •David Johnson • •“Bay Area Authors Speak Out” • •“Golden Age of Soul Music Volume 3”

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Filed Under: New Orleans
Tags: Coretta Scott King • Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton • economic exploitation • Gulf Coast Civic Works Act • HR 4048 • military might • Mohandas Gandhi • Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 • non-violence • Office of Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding • poverty in America • racism • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.