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YOU ARE A PART OF JUNETEENTH HISTORY!!

About Juneteenth in Madison Wisconsin

In 1990, a group of Madison’s Black community leaders collaborated with the Madison Inner City Council on Substance Abuse to implement the Juneteenth Celebration. From the beginning, Madison’s Juneteenth Celebration has been a family-centered, wholesome, drug-and alcohol-free event that children and families could enjoy. The Celebration’s mission is to unite Madison’s Black community in a positive way and improve its quality of life through the positive reinforcement of its heritage, culture, and accomplishments, as well as enhancing its ability to become an effective part of the greater Madison community. The goals of the Juneteenth Planning committee are as follows:

  • Madison’s Black community was divided geographically, economically, and socially. Celebrating the common denominator of our history, cultural heritage and accomplishments helps unite the community.
  • We bring together the Black, Caribbean, and African segments of the black community by featuring their shared African heritage through music, storytelling, dance, lectures, visual presentations, drama, poetry, and food.
  • We provide information and create opportunities to increase awareness of and access to the Black community on health and social issues that impact their lives and connect them with service providers that can meet their needs. This is especially helpful to newcomers to Madison, who can receive information on school districts, public transportation, parks and beaches, churches, job opportunities, nightspots, restaurants, social service agencies, city and state agencies, and where to find a doctor or dentist who accepts medical assistance.
  • We seek to build relationships between the Black community and the greater Madison community by partnering with a number of local businesses and agencies that provide funding or information booths or participate in other ways to make the Juneteenth Celebration a success. In addition, we build bridges with the community by sharing our culture and heritage with non-black Madison residents through entertainment, food, educational booths, displays, and vendors of African and Black products and art.
  • The Juneteenth entertainment program is designed to especially showcase the talents of our young people in dance, music, and dramatic presentation, and to promote in them a healthy sense of pride, confidence, and accomplishment. We have worked with local churches, and other community groups and agencies to involve youth from their programs in entertainment.

If you have Juneteenth Videos – Please send link to juneteenthtv@gmail.comPictures and/or Videos – Please post and upload to out Facebook pages Juneteenth Directors and Planners or Juneteenth Celebrations 2019-2021

If you are not a member of either page, send a request and join, we welcome you.Please join our mailing lists by sending an email to <ahref=”mailto:join@nationaljuneteenth.org” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>join@nationaljuneteenth.org – Put your name in the subject line and phone number in message body.

Join our weekly NJOF Juneteenth Community Forum Teleconference. Saturdays 12-noon CST Call 720.453.2464 or join via computer— uberconference.com/juneteenth

Listen and Learn or Join in the conversation

Sign the Juneteenth petition, go to Juneteenth us

Are you a Juneteenth Pioneer? Did you work with Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr. M.D. to obtain state legislation for Juneteenth? Have you sent documentation to NJOF? Please send articles, pictures, notarized signed affidavits, or requests for more information, to communications@nationaljuneteenth.org

Do you need a Juneteenth flag, Order – 888.509.NJOF (6563) x 6

Did you get your Juneteenth t-shirts? Order at:

http://www.reallyliveit.com/juneteenth/

Sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL

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Colors

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Visit our website at www.njof.org

Is Your Contact Information and Juneteenth Activity Listed on Our National Calendar? . . .IF NOT . . . Visit our Website and click on Members– Then Look Down For Operations Portal

REMEMBER, The Juneteenth Flag is TRADEMARKED. If you make a t-shirt using the , Juneteenth flag, and did not get permission, you are violating the copyright. You need to send an e-mail requesting permission. IF you SOLD ANYTHING using the Juneteenth flag image, t-shirts, caps, flags, banners, etc. not purchased from the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, you owe royalties. Call 888.509.NJOF (6563) x 700 for instructions on Royalty Payment.

Do Not Use the Circle Star from the Flag as your Facebook Page Frame Picture- It is Not Authorized = REMOVE IMMEDIATELY == Request that you inbox Dee Evans with the source of the this frame

Anything not covered, call 888.509. NJOF (6563) x 701

SUMMARY:

www.njof.org

www.Juneteenth.us

http://www.reallyliveit.com/juneteenth

uberconference.com/juneteenth or 720.453.2464

join@nationaljuneteenth.org

communications@nationaljuneteenth.org

juneteenthtv@gmail.com

http://www.reallyliveit.com/juneteenth

888.509. NJOF (6563) extension 700 / 701 / x6

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT