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Juneteenth Festival to offer special tributes SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The 12th annual Triad Juneteenth Festival will take place on Saturday, June 18, from 11 am to 4:00 p.m. This year, the festival will be held inside and outside at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, utiliz ing Biotech Place and Bailey Park at 575 N. Patterson Ave. The festival is set in the once thriving and bustling African American business com munity of the mid 20th century. The festival will open with a Black Family Forum at 11 a.m. sponsored by the Pan Hellenic Council. Panelists include: Dr. Dorrance Kennedy, Dr. Manderline Scales, Dr. Kimya Dennis, Mr. Lacy rZZl ?????????? *? Cole' King Prince White Deberry and Mr. Ray Robinson. Panelists will discuss the state of the black family from their professional perspectives that include the church, education, criminology, and finances. A tribute will be held at 12 noon honoring Gospel legends Andrae' Crouch and Daryl Coley, both who passed away since the last festival. Musical tributes will also be held to honor the lives of B.B. King, Prince, Natalie Cole and Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire. Performers include the Renaissance Choir, Raymond O'Neal, Deborah Patterson Miles, Curtis Miles, Joe Robinson, Big Ron Hunter, Cinnamon Reggae, Improper French and more. Craftsmen, artists, his torical and community organizations will display their wares and provide educational information about a wide range of available . resources to enhance and improve our quality of life. For youth, there will be a fashion show, dance and mime, crafts, face painting, and performances featuring the YMCA BOSS Drummers. Vendors from around the Triad will offer merchan dise including jewelry, clothing and food. Gramercy Research and the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity will sponsor a Health Fair, which will include the Novant Health/WSSU Mobile Health Unit, cook ing demonstrations and food tastings, Ask The Doctor sessions, health dis plays and dancercise. Food Lion will promote healthy eating with its "Farm Fresh Stand." Attendees can enjoy sam ples of fresh fruits and veg etables and attend the cooking demonstrations to learn about table top grilling, making smoothies, crockpot cooking and more. Wells Fargo will spon sor "The Point," a financial stability unit, with an array of services for financial coaching education, infor mation and counseling plus a free on-site credit health check. Kombo the stilt walker will perform with Otesha Creative Arts African Dance Ensemble for the grand finale to close out the festival. The event is free and open to the public. Food Lion, Inc., Wells Fargo and Wake Forest Innovation Quarter are the festival co sponsors. Additional spon sors are Kilpatrick Stockton, Novant Health, City of Winston-Salem, Old Salem Museums & Gardens, and Union Baptist Church. A schedule of activities is posted on www.triadcul ture.org. For more informa tion, call 336-757-8556. Juneteenth Luncheon set for June 16 2 will receive St. Philips Cedric S. Rodney Unity Award SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The St. Philips Heritage Center at Old Salem MuseUms & Gardens in partnership with Winston Salem State University will host a luncheon on Thursday, June 16, in cele bration of Juneteenth, the country's longest-running observance of the abolition of slavery. The Juneteenth lunch Salem. Reservations must be made in advance by calling 1-800-441-5305. In commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of founding of the town of Salem, the guest speaker for the Juneteenth Luncheon will be Dr. Jon Sensbach. Dr. Sensbach is an early scholar of African Moravian history and con ducted much of the research of African Americans in Forsyth County during the 18th and 19th centuries. Dr. Jon Sensbach is professor of history at the University of Florida. He teaches the graduate course on early America and has taught a graduate seminar on the (Harvard, 2005), is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman?a slave turned evangelist?who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world. He is also the author of "A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763 1840" (North Carolina 1998). Exploring the fluidi ty of race in Revolutionary era America, this book highlights the struggle of African-Americans to secure their fragile place in a culture unwilling to give them full human rights. The 2016 St. Philips Cedric S. Rodney Unity Award will be presented to LaRue P. Cunningham and Dr. T. Sharee Fowler. The award was established in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Cedric S. Rodney, a Moravian minister who led the restoration efforts of the Historic St. Philips Moravian Church in Old Salem. The candidates are proven community bridge builders and work success fully to move people toward a common goal for the benefit of our society. Luncheon participants may also tour the St. Philips African Moravian Church, the oldest standing African-American Church in North Carolina, where the ending of slavery was announced on Sunday, May 21,1865. Cunningham Fowler eon will begin at noon and will last until 1:30 pin. It will take place in the James A. Gray, Jr. Auditorium at the Old Salem Visitor Center at 900 Old Salem Road. The Luncheon costs $25 for adults and $20 for students and Friends of Black Atlantic as well as undergraduate courses on the Atlantic slave trade, colonial America, and the American Revolution. His most recent book, "Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World" New programming started at WSNC-FM SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE A new locally produced program focused on African issues and those of the African diaspora worldwide began Wednesday, June 1, on WSNC-FM 905 at 7 p.m. "Africa World Now Project" is an hour-long program exploring and connecting the continent. It is the latest locally pro duced program offered exclusively by WSNC-FM, the public radio station licensed to Winston-Salem State University. The show will replace "The People's Pharmacy." "What Africa World Now Project brings is a direct and clear intent to explore all of the Africa world," said James Pope, a liberal studies assistant professor at Winston-Salem State University and the show's produc er. "It seeks to understand the global connectivity of local and national issues that face Africa and African descent communities wherever they are found in the world." For more information, contact Elvin Jenkins at 336 ^50-2324 or email him at jenkinse<?>wssu.edu.f ?H V S JUNE 23 - 26. 2016 DOWNTOWN MARRIOTT fc UNION BAPTIST CHURCH CONFBRBNCB SPEAKERS AND PRBSBNTBRS (Partial Ustbw) i^JoLyim ?msi l 1 l I Pastor (Mm 9 E' f'WJ Conference Schedule [ lp THURSDAY, JUNE 23 6 pm Opening Worship Service FRIDAY, JUNE 24 9 am ? I pm Ministry Workshops ? Clergy Ministry ? Security/Armor Sewers ? Musk end Fine Arts: Choir. Praise ft Worship Musk lens Dance. Mime ? Ministry Volunteers/Staff - Worship Service - e pm SATURDAY. JUNE 25 9 am ? I pm Family Workshops CMrgy - First Ladlas ? Is tho Marrlap Still Working? - Sinqfa and Ranawad - Whan a Man Ranaws His M|h - Whan a Woman Ranaws Har Faith - Blandad FamiUas-Ranawad Unity SUNDAY. JUNE 26 Worship Sarvlcas Dr Wh M^Tantf -f" . 'JS; 2016 Takeover Youth Confe rence Friday, June 24 and Saturday. June 25 9 am - 2 pm Grades K-12 IS Union Baptist Church ?to Do you wish your child would just Focus? The ReNew Takeover Youth Conference offers two days of ?# refocusinq younq people on God's voals for their lives. r Gender SmaH Group Sessions - Social Media Check - Block Party/Cookout! M Contact Dr. Kla Hood - 336.724.930S x23f or khoodeunlonlMptistwsncorg Reqlfter Onllne.^wwwunlonbaptistwsnc orq ^ ... gpMMpi Registration Fees PIMM I $25 - Workshops and Services^ I $35 - Work ?m$ Christian Dance Paityjn f $10 - You'
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