Juneteenth Heritage & Cultural Preservation Association, Inc.

"None Are Free Until All Are Free"

The Juneteenth Heritage & Cultural Preservation Assoc. is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich history, heritage, and cultural significance of Juneteenth. Through community outreach, educational programs, and historical preservation efforts, we strive to honor and celebrate the resilience and contributions of African Americans in the journey towards freedom and equality.
JUNETEENTH 2ND ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL 
Upload films  from June 15 - September 8, 2024.
Entry $25.
Film Festival, Saturday, September 28, 2024.
                     From  3:00 - 7:00 P.M.   
SpringHill Suites,   


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Juneteenth Second Annual Film Festival
The Juneteenth Film Festival is Saturday, September 28, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. E.T. 
Films upload to Juneteenth Florida Arts and Film Festival - FilmFreeway  Submissions end September 7, 2024

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Location - SpringHill Suites Lakeland, 511 W Lime Street, Lakeland, FL 33815

Juneteenth Community Observance

Juneteenth Community Observance: A free celebration of freedom and community, honoring African American achievements and providing education and healing. Featuring a program, hair fashion show with Stylist Nedra Butler, Barber Ken Davis II, and performances by Crystal World of Dance, CEO, Crystal Brown-Davs. Saturday, June 17, 2023, from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Donation: $10.00. Coleman-Bush Building, 1104 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Lakeland 33805. Call 863-271-3386, with questions.

JUNETEENTH POLK COUNTY Inaugural Film Festival

JUNETEENTH POLK COUNTY Inaugural Film Festival, Saturday, July 1st, 2023, 11 A.M. - 8 P. M. Q&A and Reception 7- 8:00 P.M. @ POLK STATE COLLEGE, Lakeland Campus Films and Times TBA Juneteenth marks the nation’s second Independence Day and should be a national pride as a significant milestone in American history. This year, we will help create the platform as the nation to come together to celebrate Juneteenth and host one of the largest Juneteenth Observance on Wall Street in New York and at the White House on June 19th. Juneteenth observance is a Reflection of America’s History. Contacts: Doris Moore Bailey - 863-816-6480 juneteenthlkld21@gmail.com George Lawrence -

"None Are Free Until All Are Free!"

Doris Moore Bailey

Region 6 Director: AL/FL/GA/NC/SC

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   Juneteenth Mission Statement -
“To bring all Americans together to celebrate our common bond of freedom through the recognition, observance, education and historic preservation of Juneteenth in America.”


The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, Inc (NJOF) is a national foundation, including hundreds of local organizations., that have been instrumental in the passage of Juneteenth Independence Day legislation. In the fight for 32 continuous years, NJOF advances the right to Freedom through its initiatives including education, health, music, art, and technology creating opportunities for a better life for all. By focusing on these key building blocks the NJOF movement creates long-lasting community change. NJOF is recognized by the 400 Year Commission on African American History and the Library of Congress.  

Locally, the official and legal Juneteenth Committee began its observance in 1992, after the Dr. Alzo J. Reddick, Sr., authored Juneteenth legislation which was signed into law by then Governor Lawton Chiles, in May 1991.  Doris Moore Bailey, family and the Juneteenth Committee have moved the Juneteenth agenda forward honoring community outstanding citizens, helped you via scholarships, sponsored businesses trips, trips for seniors and youth. Provided bicycle to youth at Harmony and New Bethel AME Churches. Provided authors books to KHS and established a Book scholarship via the Polk County Education Foundation. Juneteenth Lakeland sponsored Rodeos at Combee Arena for five years. Rodeo horsemen/woman came in from GA/SC/TX, and throughout Florida.  

Was responsible for the implementation of the Polk County Buffalo Soldiers re-enactment with members Beverly Bailey and Doris Moore Bailey, hosting Memorial Day Observance at Buffalo Soldiers Campsite at Lake Wire. 
   
Rev. Dr. Ron Myers celebrates Juneteenth with Tougaloo community - YouTube 
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Saturday, June 24, 2023, is the exclusive Juneteenth Corvette Car Show from 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Lake Mirror Amphitheater, 121 Lake Avenue, Lakeland, FL  33801. There will be food, vendors, and raffles.  Pre-register is $20.00, and begins now through midnight Friday, June 23, 2023.  On site registration begins Saturday morning, June 24, 2023, at 8:30 A.M.  Fee is $25.00.
The car show is open to the public.

Juneteenth Corvette Car Show Registration Form
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Minister John Mosley Sr. - LA

NEW ORLEANS — Minister John Mosley first learned of Juneteenth in 1990.

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John Thompson

John Thomson is the founder of Juneteenth America merged with all the Juneteenth Organizations, and elected Reverend Ronld V. Myers, MD, as NJOF President.

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Reverend Ronald V. Myers Sr., NJOF first elected president.

Served as NJOF president until he transitioned in 2018. Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. (born February 29, 1956 – September 7, 2018) was an American physician, Baptist minister, musician, and civil rights activist. He was the founder and chairman of several organizations active in the modern movement to promote the holiday Juneteenth. He worked in the field of medicine, providing care to poor rural residents of the American South. He also performed as a jazz musician. Personal life and education Myers was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of two sons, to Marion Mack Myers and Neoma R. Myers. The Myers family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when his parents became employed as teachers in the Milwaukee Public Schools. He attended Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. He was a soloist in the high school jazz ensemble on trumpet and piano. Myers attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in African American Studies and was a member of the Experimental Improvisational Black Music Ensemble, under the mentorship of trombonist and professor Jimmy Cheatham. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1985 and completed his residency in Family Medicine at LSU Medical Center's Washington St. Tammany Parish Charity Hospital in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1988. He took part-time courses at Reformed Theological Seminary at Mississippi Valley State University in 1989 and 1990.

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Ben Haith

The Juneteenth flag was designed by activist Ben Haith in 1997. Why is the Juneteenth flag curved? The flag’s colors — red, white and blue — were deliberately chosen by Haith to demonstrate that even throughout enslavement, African Americans were always American. Today, many continue use the symbolic Pan African colors: Red, Black, and Green. Some add Gold too.

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Juneteenth Thirty-Frist Observance Lakeland - Vendor Form.  

Brenda Ward

Alabama State Director

Bob Johnson

Georgia State Director

Phyllis Coley

North Carolina State Director

Dr. Elizabeth Castle

South Carolina State Director

100 only tickets were available, and they are going fast.

On behalf of The African American Chamber of Commerce Polk County and Juneteenth Committee, I solicit your support as we approach TAACCPC’s 4th year, and I invite you to partner with us as we host our first annual African American Emphasis Month Gala, honoring CEO Emeritus Mrs. W. Gaye Williams, Central Florida Health Care, who was Central Florida Health Care, Inc.’s third CEO from 1993-2013, and their first African American to serve in that leadership role. During her tenure, Mrs. W. Gaye Williams grew the organization and expanded healthcare centers in Polk, Highlands, and Hardee Counties. She is also an independent healthcare consultant.Read More


  • Date: 2/11/2023 06:00 PM - 2/11/2023 09:00 PM
  • Location: the Winter Haven Garden Center, 715 3 Rd Street NW, Winter Haven, Florida 33881 (Map)

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Dr. Myers explains the significance of MAAFFA...
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Maafa is a Kiswahili for term meaning "Great Disaster. It has come to be associated with the era of the European and Arab slave trade. The resulting effect on African people: over 100 million people lost their lives and their descendants have been systematically and continuously assaulted through institutionalized anti-Africanism.

Ubuntu is the opposite of Maafa and was the dominant paradigm in Africa leading up to it.
Examples of the Maafa include Jim Crow segregation, lynching, apartheid, colonialism, neo-colonialism, lynching, forced sterilizations, slavery, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and Stockholm syndrome.
  •  6/29/2023 06:00 PM - 7/1/2023 10:00 PM
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  •  6/17/2023 10:00 PM
  •   1104 Martin L King Junior Avenue, Lakeland, FL, USA

Call for details and vendor application at 863-816-6480.

  •  6/15/2023 02:00 PM
  •   1104 Martin L King Junior Avenue, Lakeland, FL, USA

Juneteenth Region 6 Zoom Meeting at 7:30 P.M. E.T, 6:30 P.M. C.T. "All Thing Juneteenth" - None Are Free Until All Are Free. Juneteenth 2022 Theme: Honoring The Founding Father The USCT. " Ya''ll FREE!" Alabama/Florida/Georgia/North Carolina/South Carolina

End! Pre-Juneteenth Event @ Coleman-Bush Building - Lakeland - 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
African Americans National Anthem!
$25

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Judging categories may include mustaches, partial beards, full beards, and artistic. These categories are often further subdivided. For example, the North American Competitive Beard and Moustache Alliance create the following differentiation:

  • Natural - No styling aids allowed

  • Imperial - Small, bushy mustaches with the tips curving upward

  • Hungarian / Wild West - Large and bushy

  • Dali - Slender mustaches with the tips curved upwards, though not over the eyebrows

  • English - Another slender style, with the tips only slightly raised

  • Free - Don’t fit in the above categories
Prizes Give Aways ...    Entry Fee: $10      --- Call Bryson at 863-816-6480.

The Power of Freedom

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Saturday, June 24, 2023, is the exclusive Juneteenth Corvette Car Show from 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Lake Mirror Amphitheater, 121 Lake Avenue, Lakeland, FL  33801. Early Registration before midnight, Friday, June 23, 2023, is $20.00. Registration begins 8:30 AM, Saturday, June 24, 2023, fee is $25.00.

There will be food, vendors, and raffles. The car show is open to the

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  •  6/28/2024 03:54 PM - 7/20/2024 03:54 PM
  •   Polk County, FL, USA

The Juneteenth Committee Lakeland will host the 32nd Annual Observance beginning Friday, June 14 and throughout Saturday, June 15, culminating with its' second Florida Arts and Film Festival in Lakeland in July 2024. This highly anticipated event commemorates Juneteenth, a significant milestone in African American history, marking the 159 years of emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Film makers can submit their films via Film Freeway.