Juneteenth in the Neighborhoods: Unified by Our Pride
June 13 - June 22
Juneteenth in the Neighborhoods: Unified by Our Pride — A Cultural Engagement & Public Art Strategy Stewarded by Be Connected Durham & The DURM Juneteenth Collaborative (DJC)
Stay tuned for more details on complementary events and collaborations in the coming weeks – but for now, mark your calendars! June 13-22, 2025 – we can’t wait to see you there!
Our Schedule of Offerings: A Celebration of Black Joy, Community Legacy, and Cultural Power Across Durham
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | 6–8 PM Community All Skate at Wheels Skate Rink
📍 715 North Hoover Road, Durham, NC (instead of Wheels Skating Rink)
Roll into Juneteenth Week with music, movement, and multigenerational joy on wheels. Open to all ages—come as you are and glide into freedom.
Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 11 AM – 3 PM West End / Lyon Park Juneteenth Celebration
📍 815 & 906 Carroll Street, Durham, NC
Hosted by the West End Lyon Park Legacy Project and JOY Foundation, this event features community storytelling, youth art from Soul Sanctuary, and a flag-raising ceremony honoring the Buffalo Soldiers.
Friday, June 20, 2025 | 3–9 PM The Remembering: Wellness & Art Market
📍 508 Simmons Street (in collaboration with Stanford L. Warren Library)
A healing-centered celebration curated by Taylor Mary Webber-Fields of True Heart, True Justice & Sacred Wellness, in partnership with Greene Solutions. Enjoy sound baths, reiki, ancestral remembrance, and Black-owned wellness vendors because Black freedom includes rest, ritual, and restoration.
Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 12–4 PM Soul Sanctuary x North Durham Juneteenth Farmers Market
📍 1016 Old Oxford Road, Durham, NC
Fresh produce, young artists, music, movement, and joy! This family-friendly event uplifts food justice, youth voice, and Black land legacy.
Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 4–8 PM Bragtown Community Association Presents: Juneteenth at Lakeview Park
📍 3500 Dearborn Drive, Durham, NC
Gather with the descendants of Stagville and the Bragtown community for ancestral honor, cultural pride, and powerful storytelling. A sacred close to a powerful week.
We’re excited to announce that Juneteenth Week: Unified by Our Pride, presented by the DURM Juneteenth Collaborative, is back for its 5th year! This annual celebration continues to amplify equitable community engagement and information-sharing in neighborhoods with a rich history of Black culture, both past and present. From June 13 through June 22, 2025, we’ll come together across Hayti/Southside, North Durham, Bragtown, Merrick Moore, and West End to honor our legacy, reconnect as neighbors, and strengthen the vibrant network promised by Be Connected Durham’s Fayetteville Street Fellows Project.
This year, we’re looking forward to even more authentic connections, building on the momentum of over 2,500 attendees in previous years. Whether you’re a long-time neighbor or a new friend, this is the time to slide through, tell your people, and join us in celebration! This week-long celebration is proclaimed by and sponsored in part by the City of Durham.
Juneteenth in the Neighborhoods: Unified by Our Pride is a transformative public art and community engagement strategy that uplifts Durham’s historically Black neighborhoods by honoring their rich legacy, activating their present vitality, and securing their cultural future. The initiative is a declaration: Durham knows itself best through the contributions, resilience, and beauty of its Black communities.
Juneteenth in the Neighborhoods: Unified by Our Pride is a bold and visionary public art and community engagement initiative that activates historically Black neighborhoods across Durham through art, memory, economic empowerment, and intergenerational healing. In its fifth year, this long-term strategy reclaims public space for the purpose of truth-telling, celebration, and future-building, where Black Durham sees itself, knows itself, and honors itself.
Rooted in Black Southern freedom culture, this initiative is stewarded by Be Connected Durham & Beyond, the nonprofit cultural strategy and planning arm of Angel Iset Dozier, in collaboration with neighborhood leaders, youth, elders, and artists. It was seeded by the foundational work of Aya Shabu—cultural historian, movement artist, and founder of Whistle Stop Tours and Village of Wisdom—who hosted Durham’s first neighborhood-based Juneteenth celebration, re-centering Black land, memory, and culture as core to Durham’s identity. The DJC believes in the importance of culturally relevant and responsive placemaking that is indeed deeply rooted in place and space.