The 2024 Equity Weekend is packed with four powerful days of programming to promote Equity!

Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal US holiday. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. As it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger delivered the final enforcement of the the Emanciplation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas to mark the end of the American Civil War.

60th Anniversary of 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Sixty years ago, there came from many quarters of our nation a youthful diversity of ethnicities, opinions, lifestyles, and persuasions, a cadre of risk-takers committed to lifting the last burden from the shoulders of the world’s last oppressed woman and man. Our coming together was more than idealism that has since been celebrated as the Mississippi Summer of 1964.While countless pundits and chroniclers from without have vertically described, discussed and even extolled the seasonal events of that year, this is the rare occasion, some sixty years later, for a horizontal view of those who survived to tell the story -- it origins, frustrations, triumphs and its aspirations as well as hope.With the doves outnumbering the ravens in the parliament of our hair, this is our unbent and unbowed voice calling to those who must succeed us as radical agents of change. We want them to know that ours was more than theory and faith. It was more than uplifting rhetoric and freedom songs -- It was pragmatic and tedious, dangerous and deadly, not only for us but more importantly for the locals who believed in us with their […]