Juneteenth Celebration for Manhood Training Fundraiser, Rites of Passage
Date and Time
Jun 19, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
Anacostia
2004 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20020
Jun 19, 2019 6:00 pm
Anacostia
Busboys and Poets and Manhood Training Come Together to Celebrate Juneteenth!
Come join us at the new Busboys and Poets Anacostia location for this Celebration!
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
This event will feature community and homegrown fashioned and developed art by artists and musicians that will be showcasing their talent in support of this great cause.
The Manhood Training, Rites of Passage process is designed to nurture, develop, and empower the spirit, mind, and body of young men of the African Diaspora. It is also designed to prepare our young men to assume responsibility as tomorrow’s Husbands, Fathers, Leaders, Warriors, Role Models, Entrepreneurs, and Mentors.
The Culmination of the Manhood Training Process is a journey to the birthplace of civilization, Africa. This August, Manhood Training will be traveling to Ghana, West Africa. Many black Americans can trace their ancestral lineage to the West African region of the continent.
Donations raised from this fundraising event will allow us to provide flight and lodging accommodations for our young men on our journey to Africa. Our Journey will take us to Ghana, West Africa where the boys will visit memorials to W.E.B. Dubois and Kwame Nkrumah. We will travel to kente and wood carving villages to experience the craftsmanship that has influenced popular culture in which we live in Western society. They will also get the experience of traveling to the slave dungeons in “Cape Coast” to see the “Door of No Return” the holding place for enslaved African before the horrific journey through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
