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Commemorating 159 years of Black Liberation on Juneteenth at Roy Wilkins Park

A sustainable and historic festival for the South East Queens community that highlights, celebrates and commemorates our Black Ancestors and their journey to liberation through Juneteenth. In partnership with community leaders, elected officials, community organizations, Black Greek life, public safety, parks, small businesses and more, the collective committee will execute Juneteenth’s worth remembering for years to come.

05/10/2026

This Mother’s Day, we honor not only the mothers who raise families, but the mothers who raise movements. Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the “Mother of the Movement,” dedicated her life to educating Black adults on literacy, citizenship, and voting rights during the height of segregation in the American South. Through her Citizenship Schools, she helped empower thousands of Black people to read, organize, vote, and fight for dignity in their communities.

In this rare 1979 interview filmed in Columbia, South Carolina, Clark reflects on the purpose and sacrifice behind her work with remarkable clarity and strength. Her life reminds us that liberation is often nurtured quietly through classrooms, kitchens, churches, and communities where women carry the labor of resistance every single day. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, we honor every mother, grandmother, auntie, and caretaker whose love continues to birth courage, justice, and freedom across generations.

05/02/2026

Sun Ra, born Herman Poole Blount in 1914, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, and visionary whose work transcended music to become a powerful cultural and political philosophy. Emerging from the Chicago jazz scene, he led the Arkestra in creating a sound that blended improvisation, electronic experimentation, and cosmic symbolism.

His work laid critical foundations for Afrofuturism, a movement that centers Black imagination as a force capable of reshaping history, redefining identity, and envisioning liberated futures beyond the constraints of the present.

In the 1974 film Space Is the Place, Sun Ra brings Afrofuturism to life through a bold and immersive narrative. The film follows his return to Earth with a radical proposition for Black people to leave behind systems of oppression and build a new existence in outer space. Here, space is not an escape but a site of transformation, possibility, and power.

Through vibrant visuals, experimental storytelling, and the electrifying presence of the Arkestra, the film becomes a declaration that liberation begins with imagination. It invites viewers to see Afrofuturism not just as an artistic lens, but as a strategy for reclaiming the future and constructing worlds where Black life is expansive, self-defined, and free.

05/01/2026

Juneteenth in Queens is back for Year 6 and this time, we’re centering what keeps our communities alive and thriving: Black business.

Black to the Future is more than a celebration. It’s a marketplace, a movement, and a direct investment in the future of the small Black business economy. Our vendors are the main activation. Every purchase, every connection, every moment of support helps build sustainability, ownership, and long-term power in our communities.

Pull up, tap in, and shop intentionally. Come meet the creators, the builders, and the visionaries shaping what’s next in real time.

Free RSVP required: Links to register, get involved, and support are in our bio.

The future is Black-owned. Let’s build it together. ✊🏾

04/20/2026

By request, we were asked to do more than post—we were asked to gather.

Our communities are carrying a lot right now.
And while violence is what we’re seeing, we know there’s more beneath the surface.

We’re holding space this Wednesday virtually to come together—to process, to be honest, and to think about how we can show up for our youth in real, supportive ways.

This is a space for listening.
This is a space for reflection.
This is a space for care—and collective action.

Join us.
Register at the link in bio.

04/19/2026

Join us in collective prayer and community led by as we honor the life of Jaden Pierre and pray for healing across our community.
Let’s come together to support his family and stand for peace in our neighborhoods. 🕊️

04/02/2026

What makes Juneteenth in Queens so special?

It’s not just the festival… it’s the people behind it ❤️

This day is powered by community — and we’re looking for volunteers to help bring it to life.

If you’ve been looking for a way to give back, connect, and be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you.

We truly can’t do this without you.

🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/jiqvol2026

03/21/2026

On March 21, 1965, the third Selma to Montgomery march set out across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, not just as a protest, but as a direct challenge to a system built to deny Black people political power.

This time, under a federal court order, the state that once unleashed violence on peaceful marchers was forced to permit the demonstration. Even then, the march was tightly controlled, with only 300 people allowed on the highway at a time. But over five days, that line of marchers stretched into a movement. By the time they reached Montgomery, more than 25,000 people stood united, demanding what should have never been negotiable: full access to the ballot.

Their courage was not symbolic. It was strategic, collective, and disruptive. And it forced the hand of a nation. Just months later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law, outlawing many of the barriers that had long been used to suppress Black voters across the South.

But that victory was never the end of the struggle. It was a breach in a system that continues to evolve in how it restricts access, from voter ID laws to district manipulation to the gutting of federal protections.

The legacy of Selma is not just about what was won, but about what it demands of us now: to organize, to participate, and to defend the right to vote as a living, ongoing fight.

03/04/2026

During Women’s History Month, Juneteenth in Queens honor the revolutionary legacy of Angela Davis, a scholar, organizer, and freedom fighter whose voice helped shape the modern struggle for Black liberation.

In 1979, Davis spoke at a Black History Month convocation at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, offering a powerful reflection on human rights, political prisoners, apartheid, education, health care, and Black poverty. Her words remind us that injustice is not accidental. It is built and maintained by systems that depend on inequality.

In this speech, Davis urges us to see the connections between struggles across the world and to understand that freedom requires organized people who refuse silence. Listening today, her message feels strikingly current.

The same questions about prisons, economic inequality, and the value of Black life remain before us. Honoring Angela Davis means honoring a tradition of women who refused to accept the limits placed on their communities and instead dedicated their lives to building a world rooted in justice.

02/18/2026

Ramadan Mubarak! ☪️ Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide through fasting from dawn to sunset, increased prayer, Qur’anic recitation, and acts of charity, all intended to cultivate discipline, gratitude, and moral clarity. The fast is both physical and ethical, requiring abstention not only from food and drink, but from harm, excess, and injustice. It is a period of spiritual refinement rooted in the belief that transformation of the self is inseparable from responsibility to community.

In the United States, Black Muslims have played a significant role in linking faith to liberation movements, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. The growth of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad fostered political consciousness, economic self-determination, and racial pride among Black communities confronting segregation and state violence.

After his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X publicly described witnessing multiracial Islamic fellowship, which reshaped his understanding of global solidarity and informed his later advocacy for international human rights frameworks beyond domestic civil rights. His Hajj marked a theological and political evolution, connecting Black liberation struggles in the United States to anti-colonial movements across Africa and Asia.

Throughout this era, Islamic practice, including Ramadan observance, offered structure, discipline, and collective identity within broader movements for dignity and self-determination. Black Muslim communities established mosques, schools, and mutual aid networks that functioned as both spiritual institutions and sites of political education. Ramadan therefore stands not only as a sacred month of worship, but as part of a living tradition in which faith has been mobilized in the ongoing struggle for justice and liberation.✊🏾

02/17/2026

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1941, raised within the constraints of segregation and the traditions of Black church life that shaped generations of organizers. He emerged from the Southern freedom struggle as a close collaborator of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., where he helped transform Operation Breadbasket into a disciplined economic campaign that compelled major corporations to hire Black workers and reinvest in Black communities. From the beginning, Jackson’s approach insisted that civil rights required economic consequence, linking moral appeal to material change.

Today we mark his passing at 84 years old, and with it the closing of one of the last living bridges between the Civil Rights Movement and the struggles we still carry forward. His life asks us not only to remember history, but to inherit responsibility.

Over the following decades, he carried that philosophy onto the national stage. His presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 expanded the boundaries of American politics by assembling the Rainbow Coalition, uniting Black communities, labor, immigrants, farmers, and the poor into a shared political vision. In New York City, including in Queens, Jackson repeatedly worked with clergy networks, tenant organizers, and union members, and later anchored the Wall Street Project to confront financial exclusion directly within the nation’s economic center. He treated the city not simply as a platform but as terrain where policy, capital, and community power collided.

He taught that voting and boycotts belong to the same democratic tradition, and that representation without redistribution leaves injustice intact. His legacy offers instruction rather than nostalgia: build coalitions across difference, confront systems rather than symbols, and measure progress by whether ordinary people gain stability, dignity, and power.

He leaves behind no monument large enough to contain the lesson, only a directive: keep hope alive, but make hope material.

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