Your blood can save lives. We’d like to thank all donors at this blood drive for coming to give blood to help meet the urgent need for blood in the Black community. Get a $20 Gift Card by email from our friends at Amazon.
The Mobile Food Pantry hosted by Second Harvest, HOLA Lakeway, the Hamblen County Chapter of the NAACP and Morristown’s Task Force on Diversity distributed 300 food boxes on November 2nd! Thank you helpers and distributors! There were a number of young people from Second Harvest who cheered our hearts! The event was held at the offices of HOLA Lakeway. The next Mobile Food Bank will be held on December 7. Below are some photos from November.
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Second Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Jun 19 at 1 PM – 8 PM
MTFD is co-sponsoring the Second Annual Juneteenth Celebration at Cherokee Park on Saturday, June 19, 2021. The Commemoration Program takes place from 1- 8pm, but anyone who wishes to spend the day is invited to come early and stake a claim on where to place your blanket and/or lawn chairs.
There is no admission and it is family friendly. There will be over 30 vendors, including food trucks and other booths of interest.
The program includes Gospel Music and Praise Dancers from 1 – 5pm. There are live performances by Stand Up comedians, R & B, Jazz, and Country musicians with a special appearance by Camo Brian!
Morristown’s own Brandon Moore is the Keynote Speaker.
There is a Kids Corner with games and face painting, Raffles and Giveaways.
Sponsors are Morristown’s Task Force on Diversity, Walmart, Morristown Parks and Recreation Department.
In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sweet Honey in the Rock presents a 3:00pm and an 8:00pm show on Sunday, January 17, 2021. Both shows are being live-streamed from the Lincoln Theater in Washington. Neither show is free, but you can buy a ticket for a small fee and show it on your Smart TV or your computer or cell phone to anyone gathered where you are-family, friends, or SS class! In addition, you can watch it again for the rest of the week!All details are at https://thirdrow.live/events/sweet-honey-in-the-rock/
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is one week away, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) invites you to celebrate with us.
The People’s Holiday
Monday, January 18 ǀ 4 p.m. Eastern
Free ǀ Online
The People’s Holiday is NMAAHC’s annual program honoring Dr. King’s commitment to racial equality, justice, and service.This year, we are proud to present six-time Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer, and educator Christian McBride in a digital performance inspired by his social justice-focused album The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons.Join us online for a 45-minute performance of jazz and poetry, which also features students from the Julliard School and award-winning poet Evie Shockley. The program will conclude with a conversation between Christian McBride and NMAAHC Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs Dwandalyn Reece. The People’s Holiday is generously supported by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
Kids’ Activities Celebrating Dr. King
Monday, January 18
Free ǀ OnlineBeginning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, hop over to our NMAAHC early childhood education webpage to pick out a MLK-inspired art project for your child. While you’re there, check out our guide to children’s books and resources that support discussions about race at home.
Joyful Activity Booklets
Martin Luther King Jr. Day also marks the launch of a new series of publications for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers: Joyful Activity Booklets. Inspired by A Is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book, written by NMAAHC’s Anna Hindley and illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo, Joyful Activity Booklets help young children develop literacy skills and a positive sense of self. On January 18th, check out our NMAAHC early childhood education webpage to find our first two booklets, A Is for Amazing and B Is for Brave. Each month, children, caregivers, and educators can explore new booklets together!We hope you will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with us! You can take your commitment to Dr. King’s dream to the next level when you join as a Member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.Images: Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., freedom singing, SCLC Convention, 1962, by James H. Karales, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales © Estate of James Karales, 2015.129.14. Evie Shockley and Christian McBride. Photo of child by Jaclyn Nash / NMAAHC.
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Panel Guests are William Isom, East Tennessee PBS; Dr. Christy Miller Cowan, Asst. Professor of Psychology at LMU; (Rev.) Brandon Moore, Choral Music Director at Morristown East High School and Director of Youth Ministries at Trinity UMC; Keisha Griffin Monroe, Citizen Tribune and Organizer of the 2020/2021 Juneteenth Celebration; and the Rev. Johnny Jones, Senior Pastor of Toney’s Chapel Baptist Church, Morristown.
Be sure to allow time on Monday to listen and watch this thoughtful and important reflection.
We are now accepting donations for the 2021 George Floyd & Brianna Taylor Scholarship Fund and/or 2021 Juneteenth Celebration.
If making a donation please indicate where you wish your donation to be applied in the memo line and mail your check to:
230 Montrose Ave. Morristown TN, 37813
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“Juneteenth” or June 19th is one of three important times each summer to the Black community. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring that “all persons held as slaves…are declared free.” But it didn’t happen that way.
It was the third year of a bloody, Civil War and part of what was at stake was the outcome of that war in territories in the west, especially in Texas. Would Texas be won from Mexico and become a state in the United States? More importantly, would it become a slave holding state or would it be declared a free state? On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Grainger landed in Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War was over and that all enslaved people were now free! The landing of this regiment meant that there were finally enough Union troops to hold in place, President Lincoln’s Executive Order of emancipation. The decision was made and “Juneteenth” became the oldest, nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.