This weekend, Juneteenth celebrations will take place across the country to commemorate the abolition of slavery.
On Saturday, Juneteenth at Oakland Cemetery is offering tours of the African-American Burial Grounds and a performance by the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters. The Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters’ musical performances preserve their ancestral African-American heritage from coastal Georgia and South Carolina.
The Ring Shout serves as a preview of Atlanta artist, Charmaine Minnifield’s 2020 Juneteenth at Oakland Cemetery installation titled, Remembrance As Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives.
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