"Still We Rise" BNBHP Juneteenth 2020

If you weren't able to attend the virtual Juneteenth event hosted by the BN Black History Project, here's the recording!

Program:

• Moderator: Frances Maddox

• Prayer … Rev. D. Elliott Renfroe, Westminster Village Chaplin

• Moment of Silence by All in Honor of George Floyd

• Black National Anthem

• Still I Rise … Willie Holton Halbert

• Bloomington Normal Black History Project Video Presentation (BNBHP)

• What is Juneteenth? Jeff Woodard, Director Marketing & Community Relations

• Spoken Word

• Guest Speakers: Dr. Charles & Jeanne Morris, “How Do We Rise from Then to Now”

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Read by General Gordon Granger "19th of June", 1865 Galveston, TX

• Presentation by 100 Black Men

• “I Have A Dream Excerpt,” Rev. David Wayne Brown

• Announcements

• Final Remarks by Arlene, BNBHP Chairperson

• Closing Prayer