You are Invited
Juneteenth Celebration, Special Presentation and Reception
Presented by the Fort Greene Association
Sponsored by LIU Brooklyn
In Conjunction with Soul of Brooklyn Week
Monday, June 18th
6:30 PM – 9:30PM
LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plaza (corner of Dekalb and Flatbush Avenues)
Health Sciences Building, Room 107
Admission is FREE - Photo ID is needed to enter LIU Brooklyn Campus
RSVP today at [email protected]
Join us as we commemorate African-American freedom where we will examine Brooklyn’s connection to the Underground Railroad. Confirmed participants includes:
Joy Chatel
Duffield Street Resident
Jamel Gaines
Founder, Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn
Carl Hancock Rux
Author, Playwright, Musician
Lois Rosebrooks
Historian, Plymouth Church
Dr. Segun Shabaka
Executive Committee Member
International African Arts Festival (IAAF)
Additionally, the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office and Fort Greene Association will honor our 2012 Black History Month Honorees^ who’ve made their mark in and around Fort Greene:
Ronald K. Brown, Robert Byer, Edward Carter*, Gordon Chambers, Robert F. Cranford*, Wesley Fagan*, Rodney Hurley, Freddie Hamilton, Carl Hancok Rux, Aaron Ingram*, Carolyn Johnson, Velma Johnson, Earl Johnson, Isabella Lee, William James Edwards Lee III , Mauricio Lorence, Phil Meyers, Matthew Morgan & James Spooner, Tambay A Obenson, Pastor & Mrs. St. Phard*, William “Bill” Saunders*, Danny Simmons, Carol Thomas, Michael Thompson, Toure, Courtney Washington, Malik Yoba, Camille Yorrick, and the Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church Founders: Anderson Nurse, Gritley Joseph, and Alfred Noyce (FL) Sylvanus DeJonge*, Roy Hoyte*, Errol Millington*, Joyce Nurse*, Bertram Straker*, and Albert Pierre*
^Honorees were featured in the New York Times Local Fort Greene – Clinton Hill
*Posthumous
Special thanks goes out to our
Taste the Soul of Fort Greene Reception sponsors
The Fort Greene Association is devoted to historic preservation, neighborhood and park enhancement, as well as cultural, economic and housing advancement throughout the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Fort Greene Association, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization, operating as a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization that supports and works in concert with the many other fine organizations that make our community so special and vital. Please visit www.historicfortgreene.org to learn more about our organization. Follow us on Twitter@FortGreeneAssn / Fan us on Facebook.
For more information about public programs at LIU Brooklyn email [email protected]
To learn more about Soul of Brooklyn Week please visit www.SoulofBrooklyn.com.
