Juneteenth - Houston Museum of African American Culture - SEVERAL EVENTS!!

 

This year marks the 156th anniversary of the date the news of the Emancipation Proclamation first reach Texas and was read aloud in Galveston on June 19, 1865 - two years after it had become U.S. Law. In celebration of that day the Houston Museum of African American Culture will host a weekend of events. HMAAC Freedom Pop Up Market Indoor / Outdoor Pop Up market featuring some of Houston's Black-owned businesses, live paintings, art, and music. Miss Juneteenth Channing Godfrey Peoples, 2020, 103 min. Built like a bird, Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen—she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slavery was abolished in Texas. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to becoming Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else Doretha's Blues (Houston Premiere) Channing Godfrey Peoples, 2021, 15 min. Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories Tickets Miss Juneteenth screening will be preceded by DJ Red's Juneteenth Chopped and Screwed Mixtape at 7:30 pm Co-presented by the Houston Museum of African American Culture and the Houston Cinema Arts Society. Pulitzer Prize winner ANNETTE GORDON-REED in honor of Juneteenth Monday, June 21, 7 pm CT For free tickets and more information, click the ticket button below. Tickets Please note that this livestream event will be viewable directly on the Inprint website. The link to view the reading will be provided to those who order a ticket in the ticket receipt from Eventbrite.  PROGRAM INCLUDES: A short reading by Annette Gordon-Reed from her new book, On Juneteenth Conversation with award-winning journalist for ABC-13 News, Melanie Lawson