A float from last year's parade. Photo by Tennelle Thomas.
Hope, Arkansas, May 2023 – Visibility Outreach Touch Engage South Arkansas (VOTE SoAR), the Hempstead County Juneteenth Celebration organizer, reminds you to save the date for the second annual Juneteenth 2023 festivities Friday, June 16-Sunday, June 18. The annual theme is Black Resistance: Celebration of Resilience, History & Liberation, reflecting the Association for the Study of African American Life And History® definition of Black resistance as strategies in which Black Americans’ can mobilize resources, human and material, to establish safe spaces where Black life can be sustained, fortified, and respected.
Persons and organizations interested in attending the reception, joining the parade, vending can get more information at the Facebook page @votesoar, text the group at 870-826-7890 or email [email protected] with “JUNETEENTH 2023” in the subject.
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VOTE SoAR is Visibility Outreach Touch Engage South Arkansas, a nonprofit community collective finding joy in civic engagement, community building and sharing power. Following the recommendations from the Defining Civic Health project, VOTE SoAR is building social connectedness to and between neighbors, community based organizations, and civic institutions through community events, peer to peer support, and trusted messengers. VOTE SoAR is a sponsored project of Southern Vision Alliance EIN: 61-1639641.
Photo from the 2022 Juneteenth Celebration of event organizer Sylvia Brown with her family. Photo by Lewis Brown.
Photo from the 2022 Juneteenth Celebration. Photo by Tishara Arnett.
From the 2022 Juneteenth Celebration. Photo by Tennelle Thomas.