Acknowledging
400 Years OF
 Surviving
colonialism

JUNETEENTH ATLANTA
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The descendants of enslavement in America go uncompensated to this very day!​
​​Reparations over Everything!

Let it be no mistake! The celebration of Juneteenth is important because the transatlantic slave kidnapping was the biggest deportation and enslavement of a people in history and a determining factor in the world economy starting from the16th-to-the-20th century. Millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to North America and sold into slavery. Their enslaved forced labor is the economic foundation that the America's stands on today. THIS IS WHAT HISTORY TELLS US! WHAT HISTORY DOSEN'T TELL US: We were a people already in the continent of North America when the colonizers came. We are aboriginals and indigenous to the earth from sea to shining sea.

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Colonialism compounded by the transatlantic slave trade and other actions that have occurred against African descendants over the past 400 years has been brutal and devastating. 
We pose a few of the numerous questions that need to be considered now: 
Who are we? 
Where is home? 
Where is our country? 
What is our language?
What are the logical solution(s) to the many problems that we face today?
The answers are simple.
We are the survivors of the worst atrocities ever inflicted against a people in history.  
We are aboriginal/indigenous people of the planet earth.
Our home is the planet earth.
Our language is all languages.
Our logical solution is claiming our true identity and collectively manifesting reparations over everything!
​Free The Land from the unrighteous grips of colonialism that continues in America today.

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Just a few months before the Butler auction, the now infamous slave ship the Wanderer had landed at Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia with more than 400 illegal slaves brought directly from the Congo. This was one of the last documented slave ships to arrive in North American and it created a roiling controversy. The transport of slaves from Africa had long been outlawed, but owners of the Wanderer, with the help of the pro-slavery “fire-eater” Charles Lamar, disguised their ship as a luxury cruise liner and brought back a hull-full of “human chattel,” thumbing his nose at federal law. Records indicate that nearly 80 slaves perished on the voyage. Read the rest of this article here.


Why Reparations?
​The struggle for human rights under civil legislation continues
​
African descendants were introduced to the worst atrocities experienced by any people in the history of the world
​CIVIL LEGISLATION WILL NOT DO!
​COMPENSATION IS DUE AND WE DEMAND IT NOW!
​​Reparations over Everything!
​African descendants were introduced to the worst atrocities experienced by any people in the history of the world
​The struggle for human rights under civil legislation continues

​CIVIL LEGISLATION WILL NOT DO!
​COMPENSATION IS DUE AND WE DEMAND IT NOW!
​​Reparations over Everything!

400 Years of
​African-American History
Commission Act

This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619.
The commission must:
  • plan programs to acknowledge the impact that slavery and laws that enforced racial discrimination had on the United States; 
  • encourage civic, patriotic, historical, educational, artistic, religious, and economic organizations to organize and participate in anniversary activities; 
  • assist states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration; and 
  • coordinate for the public scholarly research on the arrival of Africans in the United States and their contributions to this country. 
The commission may provide: (1) grants to communities and nonprofit organizations for the development of programs; (2) grants to research and scholarly organizations to research, publish, or distribute information relating to the arrival of Africans in the United States; and (3) technical assistance to states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration.
The commission must prepare a strategic plan and submit a final report to Congress that contains a summary of its activities, an accounting of its received and expended funds, and its recommendations. The commission shall terminate on July 1, 2020.
Click on this link to visit H.R. 1242 website
Introduced in House 2/28/2017
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PIEDMONT PARK
Juneteenth Atlanta Event Dates:
June 19-21, 2026


Georgia United Freedom Day Parade
Parade Date:
​June 20, 2026

Georgia United 5K Freedom Run
June 21, 2026

MAP AND DIRECTIONS TO PIEDMONT PARK

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Parking in Piedmont Park is limited to the New SAGE Parking Facility. We strongly encourage visitors to use Atlanta’s public transportation MARTA, or ride share, or plan for a designator drop off and pick up driver for your group.

Traveling by MARTA:
Upon exiting the Midtown Station, take 10th Street towards Peachtree Street and continue on 10th until you reach Piedmont Avenue. Turn left on Piedmont Avenue and walk two blocks to the 12th and 14th Street gates of Piedmont Park. (or you can continue walking on 10th Street and the park will soon be on your left side).

Exit the Arts Center Station heading south on West Peachtree street for one block. Head east (go left) on 14th Street for three blocks until you reach the 14th Street entrance to the Park.
For additional information visit www.itsmarta.com or call MARTA at 404.848.5000.

Traveling by Bike/on Foot:
Park entrances open to pedestrians and cyclists include:
Park Drive Bridge (access Park Drive from Monroe Drive)
10th Street & Charles Allen (park runs along 10th Street from just west of Monroe Drive on 10th Street to a block short of Piedmont Avenue & 10th Street)
Piedmont Avenue & 12th Street
Piedmont Avenue & 14th Street

Wheelchair Accessibility
The following park entrances are wheelchair accessible: 12th Street Gate; 14th Street Gate; Charles Allen Drive Gate; Park Drive. In addition, the following buildings and areas are disabled-accessible: Piedmont Park Conservancy Offices; Magnolia Hall; Piedmont Park Conservancy Community Center; Visitors Center; Tennis Center and Oak Hill.


​Traveling by car: 
The SAGE Parking Facility is now open and the surface lot at Piedmont Park is being returned to green space. The parking facility is operated by the Atlanta Botanical Garden and is available for visitors to Piedmont Park and the Garden.

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Parade For The World!

If the south is where our ancestors did the most suffering under the ills of slavery then the south is where we need to have the largest commemoration and celebration where every city in Georgia is represented. Atlanta, Georgia is the magnet of the southeast! ​​We are collaborating with our southern neighbors to bring about a Juneteenth celebration for the world: Join us for Juneteenth ​Atlanta Parade & Music Festival 2026 Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, ​Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Haiti, The Caribbean Islands, ​​South America, Brazil, the Bahamas and 54 countries from the African continent Action Call: A reunification of the African diaspora with the African continent!

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