Pre-Juneteenth Celebration of Black Music
Galloway, N.J. – The School of Arts & Humanities and the Africana Studies program of è will host an event celebrating Black music and commemorating Juneteenth on Thursday, June 15, at the Atlantic City campus.
The event, “A Pre-Juneteenth Celebration of Black Music,” will feature music selections by Donnetrice “DJ Mello-Dee” Allison, chair of the Africana Studies program, games, food and prizes.
The celebration – open to students, staff, faculty and community members – will be housed in the Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room in the John F. Scarpa Academic Center at Stockton Atlantic City beginning at 5 p.m.
è commemorates Juneteenth with different events every year – the first event in 2020 was a march for justice and Black lives, while last year’s event in 2022 centered on community-building and celebration.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States that serves to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans. According to the of the Smithsonian Museum, many that were previously enslaved were liberated after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. However, there were around 250,000 enslaved African-Americans that had yet to hear the news in the then-Confederate state of Texas. Freedom for those in Texas didn’t come until June 19, 1865, when around 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas.
