MARKS A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND CELEBRATION FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CMUOMNITY. IT’S ALSO NOW A FEDERAL HOLIDAY. BUT WHAT’S THE MEANING BEHIND ISTH EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION? WELL TONIGHT WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ADVERSITYND A HUMAN SPIRIT OF STRENGT THHAT INCOMPASSES WHY JUNETEENTH IS SO CRITICAL TO CELEBRATE AND PASS ON TO FUTURE GENER. TITSPA HISTORY AND FREEDOM, THEY ARE THE PILRSLA OF SAINT PHILIP’S CHUHRC IN OLD SALEM ENWH EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONS FIRST WRITTEN A COUNTER CE AMTO WINSTON-SALEM. TWO ANNOUNCE THAT EMANCIPATIONT’ MORAVIAN CHURC IHN OLD SALEM. IT’S THE OLDEST BCKLA CHURCH IN THE SOUTHEAST. SO WHAT’S ACTUALLY RED HERE IN WHAT WE CALL WINSTON-SALEM. 1863 AND ANSWER TO RELENTLESS PRAYERS FROM THESE PEWS BUT NOT EVERYONE. TGO THE MESSAGE. SO YEARS LERAT THE LAST POPULATION TO LEARN ABOUT THAT CELEBRATION OF FREOMED WAS IN GALVESTON, TEXAS. ON THE 19TH OF JUNE THEREFORE, IT’S CALLED JUNE 10TH. CAUSBEE THEY WERE THE LAST COMMUNITY TO GET THE CELEBRATION NEWS AND INDEED THEY WERE FREE. SO IT’S A JUBILEE TIME TO CELEBRATE AND WE'V’ BEEN SORT OF CELEBRATING EVERY YEAR SINCE THEN. BUTOT UNDERSTAND WHY AND THE PURPOSE OF JUNETEENTH FORSYTH COUNTY COMMISSIONER FLEMING ELEMENT SAYS THAT YOU MUST LOOK BACK. BEYOND THE FOOD DANCING AND GATHERINGS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS. SO HE TRAVELED THE GLOBE INCLUDING A TPRI TO WEST AFRICA IN 2000 FOR SIX WEEKS VISITGIN THE CASTLES WHERE MOTRSHE FATHERS AND CHILDRENE WER HELD IN DEEP BASEMENTS WHAT I EXPERIENCEDOI GNG INTO THOSE CASTLES ON THE COAST OF WEST AFCARI YOU GO THROUGH THIS THING CALLED THE DOOR OF NO RETURN. BUT BENEATH THAT DOOR, IT’S LIKE A I CALL A SUBTERRANEAN BASEMENT. THAT’S A NICE WAY OF PUTTING IT. IT’S A BIG. SPACE WHERE THEY KEPT SLAVES UNTIL IT WAS SIMON SHIP THEM. TO THE NEW WORLD AND WHEN I WENT IN THAT EXPERIENCE, SHE LOOKED DOWN AND YOU SEE A LITTLE SMALL WINDOW ON WEDNESDAY. IT’S NOT REALLY ONE OF OPENING. ETH ALL FOUR SIDES A SLLMA OPEN LIKE THIS THE REST OF US COMPLETELY DOG AND AROUND THE WHOLE SQUARE. IT’S LIKE AN INDENTION FOR HUMAN WASTE. SO WHEN YOU GO IN THAT KIND OF SPACE. THIS WAY BECAME IN MY MIND. I SAID FATHER. WHY DO WE HAV TOE HAVE TO GO THROUGH CHILD OF SLAVERY? AND THE ANSWER I GOT WAS SIMPLY. UYO ARE THE ANSWER TO YROU ANCESTORS PRAYERS. SO LET’S GO HOME AND GET BUSY AND DO WHAT YOU CAN TO BE THE BEST YOU MAY BE IN YOUAN C BE AND STOP MAKING EXCUSES. THAT WAS SO TO ME. THERE’S A PERSONAL COMMITMENT TOO ARTIST OWEN DANIELS IS PASSING THAT ON THROUGH ART WITH STORIES OF STRENGTH BEYOND FREEDOM LIKE MARY TURNER HUNTED DOWN BY A WHITE MOTH AS SHE SAW JUSTICE FOR HER HUSBAND WHO WAS HUNG TYHE EXCITED TO KILL HER. SO THEY CHASED HER OUT OF TOWN. IMAGINE A 21 YEAR OLD WOMAN. SEVEN EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT TRYING TO RUN AIN’T GONNA GO VE RY FAR. THEY GOT TO THIS BRIDGE. AND THEY STRUNG HER UP AND THEY HUNG HER. UPSIDE DOWN ON THE BRIDGE. AND WHEN THEY HUNG UPSIDE DOWN SHE WOULDN’T DIE. SO THEYOUSE D THE GASOLINE AND BURNED THEIR ALIVE. AND BEFORE SHE BURNT ALIVEHEY T CUT THE BABY OUT AND STOMPED AT THE DEATH. THAT’S THE SRYTO OF MARY TURNER. I WANTED HER TO BE SO DEFIANT. THAT YOU COULD NOT. WALK PAST HER AND NOT SEE YOUR COURAGE OWEN SAYS THE ROPES THAT TIDE TURNER DID NOT BIND HER A TESTAMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STRENGTH WORTH CELEBRATING AND ENGANGGI BUT IF YOU START LOOKING AT THE WORD LONG ENOUGH LIKE THE WORK THAT’S OVER MY SHOULDER ABOUT MURRAY TURNER. THE THE PIECE OF WORKERS START HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH YOU. DAN THAT IS WHAT AN ARTISTOB J IS TO CREATE THIS COMMERCE THIS SAFE SPACE WHERE YOU CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION NOT ABOUT A GREEN OR DISAGREEING. IT’S NOT ABOUT PERCEPTION. IT’S ABOUT YOU HAVING A CONVERSATION LIKE WE ARE AND YOU’RE WALKING AWAY WITH THE IDEA THAT YOU GNAI AN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT YOURSELF TO ME JUNETEEN SORT OF REPRENESTS A START THE HUMAN SPIRIT. BECAUSE IT’S UNCOMFORTAE.BL EVEN COMING OUT OF CHAESRL SLAVERYT A ONE POINT BEING SHIFTED AND THOSE FREE PERSONS WERE ABLE TO HAVE A LIFE OF THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT FROM THAT PECULIAR INSTITUTION. SO IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM TTHA CONTEXT, YOU SEE THAT IT’S A CELEBRATION OF ALL PEOPLE. WE ALL LOVE TO BE FREE IN OUR CHOISCE AND OUR LIFE CHOICES AND OUR CULTURE CHOICES IN OUR RELIGIOUS CHOICES. AND SO THAT FREEDOM IS A BASIC FOUNDATION OF OUR HUMAN EXISTENCE. SO, WRONG, IT’S GETTING MORE CELEBRATIONS. THE CITY WANTS TO SALEM AND CLUTTER THE HOLIDAY GREENSBORO TOLEDO HOLIDAY, SO I EXPECTED TO CATCH ANY MORE. SO IN THE FUTURE. AND TONIGHT THERE IS A FREE EVENT HOSTED BY THERT AS COUNCIL OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY FEATURING THE ARTWORK OF OWEN’S DANIELS LEADING UP TO JUNETEENTHS A HE JUST SAW THE OPENING RECEPTION IS FROM 6PM TO 8 PM TONIGHT AGAIN, IT’S FREE, BUT IT ALSO RUNS UNTIL AUGUST 27TH IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT OUT AND WE DO HAVE A FULL LTIS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS O OUR WEBSITE WXII 12.COM MANY PEOPLE LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL OF THOSE CELEBRATIONS AND I KNOW JACLY IS ONE SLATED FOR A SATURDAY AND BAILEY PARK HOLLY LOOKING AS WE INCH TOWARDS THE WEEKEND. OH, IT’LL BE NICE ON SAD NICEN O SATURDAY FOR SURE, BUT DEFINITELY MORE HUMID T