Juneteenth at the Hermitage: Black Music on Sacred Ground.
Ben Jealous will join singers honoring Black music and naming more than 300 enslaved people buried at the Hermitage, organizers said.
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Juneteenth at the Hermitage: Black Music on Sacred Ground.
(ThyBlackMan.com) This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation, outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how strange that is. I am descended from slaves and from the men who owned and abused them. The men who denied them their God-given right to freedom. My family was enslaved by the Blands of Virginia. Richard Bland was the famous one. He was a patriot before the…
On Juneteenth, I’ll Celebrate Black Music at Andrew Jackson’s Plantation – Free Press of Jacksonville
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – This Juneteenth I will stand at the Hermitage and help celebrate Black music. The Hermitage was Andrew Jackson’s plantation, outside Nashville. I want to be honest about how strange that is. I am descended from slaves and from the men who owned and abused them. The men who denied them their God-given right to freedom. My family was enslaved by the Blands of Virginia. Richard Bland was the famous one. He was…
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On Juneteenth, I’ll Celebrate Black Music at Andrew Jackson’s Plantation
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous — ... The post On Juneteenth, I’ll Celebrate Black Music at Andrew Jackson’s Plantation is available on Institute of the Black World 21st Century.
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