Juneteenth 1865-2024: A Legacy of Song

In "Juneteenth 1865-2024: A Legacy of Song," we show that music is the tie that binds and the language that has flowed through and across cultures since the beginning of time.
Many would argue the rhythm, rhyme and the magic of a steady drum beat began in Africa. They’d also say the sounds of Africa influence every genre of music from folk and country to house, funk and rock. The heavy bass lines of hip-hop and the slashing of a heavy metal guitar are all influenced by African culture.
To truly understand the breadth of the impact of Africa on American music, in this fourth installment of this award-winning KHOU 11 documentary series, we have to take it back to the Mother Land.
The stories behind the documentary: www.khou.com/article/entertai...
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[@ChicagosFinestDevon]

I really enjoyed watching this KHOU documentary. Shoutout to everyone apart of this project it was truly entertaining and educational. Happy Juneteenth!! ❤️🖤💚

[@KHOU]

Thank you for the flowers! we are so glad you enjoyed it.

[@joettacryer1743]

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[@candycelindsay9465]

What an amazing piece. Thank you

[@SharitaWade-iw6ip]

Thanks, for posting this informative program on Juneteenth!

[@gremlinusdomesticus]

This is so cool! It was so great to see Houston artists get featured

[@user-th5hx7kl1l]

Merci beaucoup Opal Lee founder of Juneteenth ❤❤❤❤😊❤❤❤❤❤ Millions of blessings, Esther St Juste

[@thewordsmith5440]

Ben Haith created the 1997 Juneteenth flag and the colors are not red, green and yellow. It's in fact red, white and blue with a big star in the center.

[@aliyatowing-of1kf]

Happy Juneteenth to all my people 🎉

[@arthurfoyt6727]

It's a made up event. Galveston was the center of commerce in Texas. They heard FIRST in Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the war. Saying it did not make the papers in Galveston Texas of all places for month afterwards is just pure lunacy. Let's remember real events; not fairy-tales.

[@bradspringer2372]

Meaning your fellow slaves?

[@jordanmccormack5665]

God bless us, everyone. I thank the Lord for this blessed day. ✝️🛐⛪️💒📿🕯🇻🇦

[@laurenphillips5354]

Brilliant work on this! 👏🏾👏🏾

[@KHOU]

Thank you! We really appreciate it and we are so glad you liked it. Thank you for watching.

[@maureencora1]

2024 Happy Juneteenth Liberation Day Celebrate 159 yrs. Now & Forever Free. Love, Peace & Soul Food... Eat, Drink & Be Cool. (smile)

[@falanajerido875]

I truly enjoy.Thank you for sharing Juneteenth we are rich in culture. Beautiful, truly a great project.

[@maureencora1]

2024 Feel the Music.

[@janicesahadat4594]

Happy Juneteenth 🎉❤💜💜💚🖤

[@paleocon777]

Juneteenth is also in memory of the half-million soldiers who died to fight slavery

[@maureencora1]

Heaven is for Heroes, May They R.I.P.

[@robinrobertson8690]

Happy Juneteenth 🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ethelmiller8542]

Thank YOU..I REALLY ENJOYED❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-bx6sq6sp7u]

They take from us and we think they're giving us something ie. black music month, black history month when in truth we're the first to be in this universe and the first to sing a song in this universe; the essence of this song is "You created me Father, I Am that which created me, I Am You My Father" ...

[@ERIKSTAHLTV]

This is so cool 😎

[@CHARCHICHI]

Amazing documentary...very empowering!

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

It was quiet today where I live. I was hoping for a block party grilling or something, but nope, just kids playing. I hope that everyone enjoyed Juneteenth today and is still peacefully enjoying it tonight❤️🖤💚

[@ethelmiller8542]

SHOUT OUT TO..PARIS E.ELEY ...KCOH❤❤❤

[@carolwilliams6715]

Such pain, such strength, such intelligence, such talent, such beauty, such endurance, such Black Excellence.

[@mizzpoetrics]

I would've thought that the Black Seminoles would have learned their lesson about those "promises" & would've told the gov'ment to keep it stepping! I can't say that I was suprised when their promises of land, freedom etc in return for helping them fight turned out to be empty! 😔

[@louisianarainwater]

🕊💚🕊

[@jive6753]

Happy Homie Day!!!!!

[@falanajerido875]

Jewel brown need to write a book and visit Louis Armstrong house in queen, coroner love Jewel brown

[@arthurfoyt6727]

No, it was June 21st.

[@tize8310]

The banners colors are wrong. The juneteenth colors are Red, White, and Blue.

[@chrisb9445]

It's not though 😂

[@tize8310]

@@chrisb9445 Yeah it is. The official Juneteenth flag is red, white, and blue and the American flags flown from the very beginning to represent the Union's defeat of the confederacy at the very first Juneteenth celebration in 1865 were red, white, and blue.

[@CynthiePompey9999]

Honorable the community state churches failed us( it was the children school and homeless community shelter. 1865 to 1965 is when we lost our southern family farms and became enslaved on our family farms, children was taken to endengered servants never to be seen again. We have been removed from the his-story books by imagrants. the southern ne-gro Indian gullah people simple good farmers. Cooper tone Americans. Brown and beautiful blue brown skin people. Cynthie The ne-gro Buddha, Seshat age 62 grandma Iceola Po-lk Carolina Po-waton 1884. Grand pa Lillie kelly Mississippi Choctaw 1889. Master Buddha.

[@ashebermulugata9]

Afrikan Liberation Struggle Continues

[@CynthiePompey9999]

Honorable what about ne-gro Indian foot tap dancing rituals, (ne-gro Indian Powwow rituals) then tap dancing. Wee lost our spiritual dance after the 1920 Texas Ne-gro Indian massacres many fled north to Oakland California and Vanport Oregon city flooded in 1948. Cynthie the ne-gro Buddha. Seshat

[@Im_the_only_GOD]

Willie d dont look like a hip hop rapper,he needs to stop telling people he a rapper

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

It was quiet today where I live. I was hoping for a block party grilling or something, but nope, just kids playing. I hope that everyone enjoyed Juneteenth today and is still peacefully enjoying it tonight❤️🖤💚