"We started the conference because we also wanted to have a place where we can really have discussions about what it is we're experiencing globally with hip hop, and use it as a way to highlight the truth of hip hop,” Hameen said. the day of Juneteenth - at the Neighborhood Music School. This year, the conference will take place Monday, June 19, at 10 a.m. This year’s celebration also coincides with the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and the sixth anniversary of the New Haven Hip-Hop Conference, another event co-founded by Hameen. There were people that were putting in this work for decades and decades and decades to make this possible." “It is something that has been in the works for a long, long time. It is not something that was given to us,” she said. “Juneteenth is a holiday that we worked for and demanded. Hanan Hameen, founder of Artsucation Academy Network, with her father, Jesse Hameen II, and mother, Iman Uqdah Hameen, and Diane X Brown, Stetson Library Senior Branch Manager and board member of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Hameen said the official recognition has been a longtime coming. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, the day the last enslaved Americans were freed - two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth has been celebrated since the 1800s but didn’t become an official U.S. Over the last decade, Hameen said the festival has grown from a single tent on the New Haven Green to a multiday event around the city.Īnd while it’s the 10th year Hameen and Brown have honored the holiday, it’s the first year Connecticut is officially recognizing Juneteenth. Hameen founded the Coalition with Diane Brown, manager of New Haven’s Stetson Library. The annual event is hosted by the Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven in collaboration with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The 2022 Juneteenth festival at the New Haven Green. “We use our voices in many different ways, whether it was through the gospels, whether it was through rhythm and blues, the jazz, preaching, teaching, lecturing…however we did it, we used our voices. "That is how we as a people have emancipated ourselves,” Hameen said. The celebration runs from June 16-19 at various locations around the city with the theme “Voices of Freedom.” That ties into the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation’s “Waves of Freedom” theme and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas' “Rise” theme, according to Hanan Hameen, one of the Coalition’s founders. This year’s celebration marks the tenth collaboration between the Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. New Haven’s Juneteenth celebration returns this weekend with a performance by the Cold Crush Brothers, early hip-hop pioneers from the Bronx, and a hip-hop themed conference to wrap a weekend of events. Hanan Hameen, leader of the Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven. In front are Diamond Tree, founder of Hood Hula, and Dr. Elijah Haith, son of Elder Ben Haith, stands on her left.
Norwich resident Elder Ben Haith, creator of the Juneteenth flag, holds the flag with Hanan Hameen's father, Jazz artist Jesse Hameen II and her mother, award-winning filmmaker Iman Uqdah Hameen.
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