
06/19/2025
Juneteenth is a holiday which celebrates our African American ancestors, what they went through, how they overcame. My ancestor, Estes Howard founded Emancipation Day in Albion, Michigan in the early 1900s as a way to commemorate Black survival and gather together Black people in a demonstration of Black excellence.
Many of the people in the photo above are my ancestors who celebrated Emancipation Day in 1927. They were beautiful and successful people who were proud of who they were. On Juneteenth every year we now celebrate what it means to have survived the horrors of slavery and lynching. We celebrate what it means to survive the anti-Black, Klan, and police terrorism that we have been subjected to for centuries in America. We celebrate our ability it survive the circus regime currently in office. As African Americans we have always survived with wit and grace and community. Props and praises to the ancestors who made our lives possible! Ashe Aho.
What did your ancestors do? How did they survive? What did they pass down to you? Please share their stories