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Carter Farms & Africulture
Juneteenth 6.17.2023
10:00am* – Welcome
10:15am* – Ancestral Mathematics and honoring by Melani N. Douglass
10:30am – Libations Ceremony for United States Colored Troops and Ancestors led by Michael Carter Jr. (** Libations information below)
11:00am* – United States Colored Troops and Lincoln Legal League Conversation with Melani Douglass and Michael Carter Jr.
11:30am* – Plants of Resistance and Wellness featuring Justice Madden
12:00 pm* – Mental Health wellness and awareness, a dialogue around the taboo of mental health realities in Black Communities featuring Kevin Carter
12:15 pm* – Wellness as a lifestyle lead by Andrea Smith
12:45 pm* – Present and Future Dialogue with Youth of Today
1:15 pm* – Lunch
2:15 pm* – Youth Conversation on the Future (continued)
3:00pm – Presentation of winners of Youth Futurism contest
3:15 pm* – Farm Tour and Ancestral gardening planting
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(Swahili language and loose english translation)
Sifa kwa wetu Muumba (Praises to our African Creator)
Sifa kwa maisha ya Afrika (Praises to African Life)
Sifa kwa watu wa Africa (Praises to African people)
Sifa Kwa babu wetu wa Afrika (Praises to our African ancestors)
Sifa kwa Mama, Baba, Watato wa Africa (Praises to African mothers, fathers and children)
Sifa kwa asili ya Africa (Praises to African tradition)
Sifa njema asili, mimea, udongo ya Africa (Honor to nature, plants and the soil of Africa))
Sifa kwa wetu Muumba (Praises to our African Creator)
(Twi Language & loose english translation)
Otwadeampong (O-tray de am pong) Kwame Nsuo…(Everyone responds) Yaw –
(To the Creator of the Universe…..Here’s some water.)
Osuru ne Asaase Yaa Nsuo…..Yaw
To the Heavens and Earth elements…Here’s some water.
Nananom nsamanfuo nsuo….Yaw
To our Ancestors and their spirits….Here’s some water.
Agyanom (Aja nom) ne (knee) Enanom (E-NA nom) Agyeman Nsuo….Yaw.
To our forefathers and foremothers who fought for the land…Here’s some water.
To all the indigenous nations who lost their land, their practices, their lives
Arawak Nation
Kalinago Nation
Monocan
Pequot Nation
Narragansett Nation
Apache
Yaqui /Hiaki Nation
Lenni Lenape Nation
Beothuk Nation
Mapuche Nation
Guanche Nation
Mr. Pompey
Mr. Turk
Ms. Dido
Ms. Eve
Mr. Gabrielle
Mr. Jemmy Cato
Mr. Gyan Conney
Gen. Duty Bookman
Pres. Touissant L’overture
President Vincente Guerrero
Mr. David Walker
Mr. Abshalom Jones
Mr. Prince Hall
Mr. Nathaniel Turner
Mr. David Ruggles
Mr. Henry Howard Day
Major Dr. Martin Delaney
Mr. John S. Rock Esquire
Mrs. Anna Murray Douglass
Mr. Frederick Douglass
Captain Harriet Tubman
Mrs. Mary Bowser
Mr. Abraham Galloway
Pvt Arthur Allen
Pvt James Bannister
Sgt. Forest Bolar
Pvt William Brooks
Pvt Jerry Carter
Pvt Henry Clay
Pvt Samuel Cobb
Pvt Henry Cooper
Pvt Fleming Crump
Pvt Thomas Crump
Pvt James Ellis
Pvt Harrison Fabron
Pvt Albert Frazier
Pvt James Frazier
Pvt Peyton A Fry
Pvt Robert Furgerson
Pvt Samuel Gally
Pvt Charles Gordon
Corp Lewis Green
Corp Sawney Grimes
Pvt Henry Hackett
Pvt John Hargrow
Pvt Essick Harrison
Sailor Oliver Harvey
Pvt Henry Hill
Pvt Allen Holivee
Pvt George W Holmes
Sailor Charles Hughes
Sailor Conway Hughes
Pvt Lewis Jackson
Pvt Andrew Jackson
Pvt Franklin Jennings Corp William Jennings
Pvt John W Jennings
Edwin Johnson
Pvt Horace Johnson
Pvt Henry Day
Pvt Henry Leggett
Pvt Caleb Linza
Pvt William Lothers
Pvt Thomas Lourey
Pvt Silas Malone
1st Boy Horace Masser
Pvt William Miller
Pvt Phillip Miner
Pvt William H Morton
Pvt Washington Nelson
Pvt Alfred Owens
Pvt Lewes Padget
Pvt William Pannel
Pvt Addison Perkins
Pvt Joseph Perry
Pvt James Pillow
Corp Washington Porter
Pvt John Ridley
Pvt Jack Robinson
Pvt John Rose
Corp Robert Samuel Corp George Scott
Pvt John Shelton
Pvt Norman Simpson
Pvt Henry Smith
Pvt John Spotts
Pvt Frank Taylor
Pvt Jeff Thompson
Sgt Qualls Tibbs
Pvt Richard Tillman
Pvt Charles Tunison
Sgt. James Walker
Pvt George Wallace
Pvt Cager Warfield
4th Sgt. Horace Washington
Pvt James Watts
Pvt Henry Whitely
Pvt Smith Williams
Pvt Peter Williams
Pvt Calvin Williams
Pvt Henry Willis
To everyone who served in whatever capacity, to lead the enslaved African to freedom, liberty, and liberation, we honor you. Please know that you, your courage, your bravery, your will, your vision, your determination, your sacrifice, your beauty, your pride, your history and your values will never be forgotten nor forsaken by we, your dedicated and devoted, sons and daughters.
We will use whatever of our tools, skills, talents, understandings and desires to never forget you or forsake you. We will commit to write and rewrite where necessary with our pens of truth the chapters of your stories and legacies that are needed to honor all of who you were and who we are and will be because of you.