Charmaine Minniefield - Artist

01/16/2025

The Praise House is once again saved to move to next location at South-View Cemetery, in time for Black History Month! - https://mailchi.mp/praisehouseproject.org/what-is-ahead-for-the-praise-house-project-9295875

12/16/2024

Imlay donates $25K to save the Praise House for move to South-View to remember 1906 Race Massacre and African American history of the city. - https://mailchi.mp/praisehouseproject.org/what-is-ahead-for-the-praise-house-project-9295618

10/26/2024

While we are here at the coast to pay respect to our Gulah Geechee community, we are grateful to our sister Jai Sugapowa RoZell who will host The Praise House Projecttoday during the in Decatur. Come through!

10/13/2024

Pretty day to be at The Praise House Project

Open from 12-5pm. Spund bowl bath and tea MUSIC MEDITATION & TEA CEREMONY AT THE PRAISE HOUSE at 2-4pm!

09/07/2024

Picking up Carmen from first 6th grad dance. Mommy - i was dancing like you! I was getting it! Everyone 😭was cheering! 💥

08/17/2024

How we started our day at The Praise House at Beacon Hill opens during the Beacon Hill Pan African Festival.

Thank you Mawuli Davis and the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights for holding safe space for freedom.
ThNk you to the families who opened the day with a at in honor of the ancestors and legacy of Beacon Hill aka The Bottom!

Tonight we illuminate at Sunset at 8-10. Bring a blanket and chill at the Praise The Praise House Project for a bit while you also enjoy and amazing lineup of live music and dancing on City of Decatur GA- Government Square, just. short walk away!

See you there.

07/12/2024

Our new hours at The Praise House Project - considering the ☀️
is Fri. 9-12a & 5-9p.
I am covering the latter - s come by and see me!

07/05/2024

JOIN US EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH Griffin Gullah Geechee Lotson, SUNDAY, JULY 7th at 2PM - LIVE ON FACEBOOK vIa ZOOM.

BREAKING NEWS!

Just a few days after our Juneteenth event at Beacon Hill where we performed a community gathering and ring shout in honor of the ancestors and their legacy in that area, we received word from our family in Darien, Georgia who are descendants of the historic Butler Plantation House (also known as the Houston House), that that house had burned to the ground.

This particular land where the mansion that sat, was used as a plantation where our ancestors were enslaved and then sold in the largest mass sale of enslaved folks on this side of the water took place to settle the debit of a heinous enslaver, BURNED to the ground! In what was known as the Weeping Times, 500 of us were scattered and generations of families were broken up and taken to Savannah to be sold.

The moment was thought of as the Weeping Times to signify the weeping eyes of God who cried for us as the rain poured for 5 days as we were stored in a horse stable until the last of us was sold. This is the plantation where our Elders who keep the Ring Shout traditions are from - The Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters. They are descendants of those who remained.

For me, after our community gathering on Juneteenth, I immediate saw the image of the burning house as a Jubilee and this is as a powerful moment of transition, likened to when Sherman arrived, burning the South.

I assumed that we would call this a Jubilee - which means there was a Ring Shout the night before!

We have since connected with our elder , Griffin Griffin Gullah Geechee Lotson and would like to uplift the efforts of the descendent community so he as agreed to join us for an exclusive live interview this Sunday at 2pm on Facebook.

Tune in and learn more at the links below. We love your Griffin Gullah Geechee Lotson and all our elders and families there. We stand with you.

07/03/2024

Thank you ArtsATL for the thoughtful review of The Praise House Project at Beacon Hill. All images include are by ✨ Julie Yarbrough and are of our own ✨Giwayen Mata! Final image of the exterior installation by Kimberly Binns - ✨Also shout out to Malesha Taylor Browning aka Mali Irene and Salah Ananse mentioned for their amazing song, “Rite to Freedom. Enjoy!

Charmaine Minniefield’s “Praise House Project” was slated to be demolished. The artist’s 11th-hour advocacy pulled it back from the brink.

06/23/2024

Today I went to Lilly Hill and greeting the community. I invited the members of the faith community to send images of their ancestors. The love is pouring in!

This is Eugene Scott Carmichael, the ancestor of Eugene Carmichael, a founder of Beacon Hill. We salute and honor you those who built our communities!

We will celebrate the history of Beacon Hill at our Juneteenth Celebration in Beacon Hill today from 6-9pm. 346 W. Trinity Place, Decatur, Ga 30030. As the sunsets we will illuminate The Praise House Project with their memories! We love and honor you!

06/22/2024

I need one sponsor our vegan carrot cake for our Juneteenth Celebration in Beacon Hill! $55 plus taxes. DM me!

06/20/2024

Happy Juneteenth!

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