For this Juneteenth’s observance, Flux Projects presents “Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives” by Atlanta artist Charmaine Minniefield. The project honors recently discovered unmarked graves in Oakland Cemetery’s African American burial grounds. Due to COVID-19, the physical art installation had to be postponed to Juneteenth 2021, but she has decided to have virtual presentations throughout the day.
Last year, “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke with Minniefield about working with the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters, who served as a preview for the 2020 Oakland Cemetery installation.
“The Ring Shout is a traditional African American worship practice that was created during enslavement. And I’m saying as an act of resistance because it created and insured community. By gathering its community in a praise house, a small wooden structure, where they would stand in circle. Through call and response, they would sing and worship, but also move in a circle. The movement was the shout,” said Minniefield.
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