Juneteenth Houston

Juneteenth Houston Houston's official citywide Juneteenth Collaborative.

Tell ya mamas, baby mamas, daddy’s, baby daddy’s, aunties, uncles, kids, church ladies, nosey neighbors, cousins, big ma...
02/18/2026

Tell ya mamas, baby mamas, daddy’s, baby daddy’s, aunties, uncles, kids, church ladies, nosey neighbors, cousins, big mamas, paw paws!!!

Go vote now! www.tinyurl.com/votejh

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Here’s your daily reminder to vote Juneteenth Houston’s Celebrate Freedom Festival as the 10Best Cultural Festival in th...
02/13/2026

Here’s your daily reminder to vote Juneteenth Houston’s Celebrate Freedom Festival as the 10Best Cultural Festival in the country!

www.tinyurl.com/votejh

Calling all artists and creatives in Texas and the Houston/Greater Houston Area!!! We just dropped the 2026 Juneteenth R...
02/12/2026

Calling all artists and creatives in Texas and the Houston/Greater Houston Area!!! We just dropped the 2026 Juneteenth RFPs and this one you don’t wanna miss!

For our 5 year anniversary we are kicking off 19 Days of Juneteenth in the city of Houston with the theme Homecoming: Our Heritage, Our Home!

In addition to the commemorative logo and public art activation RFPs we have each year, we have added a new one.

In the spirit Juneteenth and its Texas-based roots, we have launched a statewide call for submissions for a Texas-Based Juneteenth Flag design!

Visit our website at www.juneteenthhouston.org for more information and to submit your designs.

We been in the lab cooking up Black Joy and Jubilation Goodness!!!As we prepare to launch 19 DAYS of Juneteenth be sure ...
02/12/2026

We been in the lab cooking up Black Joy and Jubilation Goodness!!!

As we prepare to launch 19 DAYS of Juneteenth be sure to add these important dates to your calendar.

More events announced soon!

‼️Mama we made it‼️—— VOTING LINK IN BIO ——USA TODAY has nominated Celebrate Freedom Festival as one of the cultural...
02/03/2026

‼️Mama we made it‼️
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USA TODAY has nominated Celebrate Freedom Festival as one of the cultural festivals in the country!
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Here’s why it matters. 5 years ago regular people like you and me sat around a table with a shared interest. Answer the community’s call to ensure Juneteenth remained accessible and rooted in the communities that founded its traditions and carried on its legacy. Those people represented 7 Historic Black Communities: 3rd Ward, 4th Ward (Freedmens Town), 5th Ward, Acres Homes, Independence Heights, Sunnyside and South Park. Over the last 5 years we have worked collaboratively to create a space centered on ONE founding principle…JOY! We do it for us. We do it for the Jubilee! We do it for the ones before us! We do it for the ones after us! And most importantly, we do it for the ones with us right now!
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This nomination from an internal USA TODAY selection committee continues to affirm what we already know to be true, COMMUNITY IS ENOUGH!
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Now👏🏾Go👏🏾Vote👏🏾EVERYDAY!
**Voting is free and doesn’t require an email, number, or sign in.

Happy BlackBlackBlackity BlackestHistory Month
02/02/2026

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Something’s coming just in time for Black History Month. The Jubilee Quilters of the have started assembling the first ...
01/22/2026

Something’s coming just in time for Black History Month. The Jubilee Quilters of the have started assembling the first of many Black Neighborhood Quilts.

The Black Neighborhood Quilt Project is an initiative launched in June of 2025 to pay homage to Historic Black neighborhoods past and present while unearthing and sharing the colorful stories that make them the heartbeats of the this richly diverse city. Residents of Black neighborhoods across Houston created quilt panels inspired by fond memories that are now being sown together into 6ft by 12ft quilts.

The first quilt will be on display soon. Head over to our website and sign up for our newsletter to be the first to see this incredible project when it goes on display.

And don’t worry, you can still create and submit your quilt panels. More details coming soon. Sign up!

Join us THIS WEDNESDAY from 11:30a-1p in the Eldorado Ballroom for our January in-person committee meeting. -If you are ...
01/12/2026

Join us THIS WEDNESDAY from 11:30a-1p in the Eldorado Ballroom for our January in-person committee meeting.
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If you are interested in joining the Juneteenth Houston Citywide Planning Committee here’s your chance. The open call for committee members closes on January 31st.
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RSVP required for meeting. Link in bio.

The seventh principle is Imani (Faith) which is essentially a profound and enduring belief in and commitment to all that...
01/01/2026

The seventh principle is Imani (Faith) which is essentially a profound and enduring belief in and commitment to all that is of value to us as a family, community, people and culture. Faith is put forth as the last principle as unity is put forth as the first principle for a definite reason. It is to indicate that without unity, we cannot begin our most important work, but without faith we cannot sustain it. Unity brings us together and harnesses our strength, but faith in each other and the Good, the Right, the Beautiful inspires and sustains the coming together and the commitment to take the work to its end.

The sixth principle is Kuumba (Creativity) and logically follows from and is required by the principle of Nia. It is a c...
01/01/2026

The sixth principle is Kuumba (Creativity) and logically follows from and is required by the principle of Nia. It is a commitment to being creative within the context of the national community vocation of restoring our people to their traditional greatness and thus leaving our community more beneficial and beautiful than we, i.e., each generation, inherited it. The principle has both a social and spiritual dimension and is deeply rooted in the social and sacred teachings of African societies.

The fifth principle of the Nguzo Saba is Nia (Purpose) which is essentially a commitment to the collective vocation of b...
12/30/2025

The fifth principle of the Nguzo Saba is Nia (Purpose) which is essentially a commitment to the collective vocation of building, developing and defending our community, its culture and history in order to regain our historical initiative and greatness as a people and add to the good and beauty in the world.

The assumption here is that our role in human history has been and remains a key one; that we as an African people share in the great human legacy Africa has given the world. That legacy is one of having not only been the fathers and mothers of humanity, but also the fathers and mothers of human civilization, i.e., having introduced in the Nile Valley civilizations some of the basic disciplines of human knowledge.

It is this identity which gives us an overriding cultural purpose and suggests a direction. This is what we mean when we say we who are the fathers and mothers of human civilization have no business playing the cultural children of the world.

The principle of Nia then makes us conscious of our purpose in light of our historical and cultural identity.

The fourth principle is Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) and is essentially a commitment to the practice of shared social ...
12/30/2025

The fourth principle is Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) and is essentially a commitment to the practice of shared social wealth and the work necessary to achieve it. Ujamaa literally means familyhood and suggests a sharing of work and wealth in the manner of a family.

It grows out of the fundamental communal concept that social wealth belongs to the masses of people who created it and that no one should have such an unequal amount of wealth that it gives him/her the capacity to impose unequal, exploitative or oppressive relations on others.

Sharing wealth is another form of communitarian exchange, i.e., sharing and cooperating in general. But it is essential because without the principle and practice of shared wealth, the social conditions for exploitation, oppression and inequality as well as deprivation and suffering are increased.

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