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. ✊🏾
The future starts with you! ✨
We’re on the search for talented performers, vendors, and exhibitors to help us build an unforgettable celebration rooted in culture, creativity, and collective liberation.
Whether you’re an artist ready to take the stage, a vendor with dope products, or an exhibitor showcasing innovative work, this is your moment to be part of something powerful.
Click the links in the slides to apply today and join us in shaping the future we are building. ✊🏾
#juneteenthinqueens #blacktothefuture
You’re invited to table at the 6th Annual Suitcase Sunday in partnership with Juneteenth in Queens!
This event will be on Friday, June 19 at Roy Wilkins Park from 12:00pm-8:00pm.
WITNESS is providing 40 vendors with free tables so they can sell their goods and services, build visibility, and earn income. If you’re interested in becoming a vendor, please go to the link below or scan the QR code on the flyer and apply!
VENDOR SIGNUP: https://forms.gle/MKUuZaSJM3Tx7bKi9
#witnesstomassincarceration #juneteenth #fip #nonprofit #formerlyincarcerated
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.
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.
In light of recent events at our home, Roy Wilkins Park, Black Spectrum Theatre is committed to uplifting our youth and strengthening our community. We’re sharing thoughtful solutions rooted in care, creativity, and accountability to help create a safer, more empowering space for all.
#explorepage #southeastqueens #queenssupportqueens #ourcommunity
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.
Join us in collective prayer and community led by nycclergy 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. 🕊️
We’re holding the family of Jaden Pierre in our hearts. 🕊️
Roy Wilkins Park is a space meant for community,
for gathering, for joy, for life.
Gun violence has no place in our public spaces.
For Jaden.
For our community.
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
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.
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.
