June 18 - WNBA SF's Juneteenth 2021 - Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter

Friday, June 18, 2021

12pm

What Juneteenth Means to Me: Readings and Discussion by Black Authors of the SF Bay Area

Join the WNBA SF in celebrating a holiday full of joy, humor, family and history. Juneteenth celebrates freedom, it is June 19th, the day slaves in Texas learned the Emancipation Proclamation had declared them free two years earlier.

Invited authors include:

Dr. Kim McMillon is a producer, playwright and contributor to the anthology some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio University Press, 2021). McMillon is the editor of the upcoming anthology Black Fire—This Time to be published by Willow Books (late Summer 2021). She produced the Dillard University-Harvard Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement 2016 Conference in New Orleans, and with UC Merced’s Center for the Humanities, ASUCM, and the Office of Student Life, Dr. McMillon co-produced the 2014 UC Merced Black Arts Movement Conference, Fifty Years On. McMillon edited the April 2018 special edition of The Journal of PAN African Studies on the Black Arts Movement and has contributed to the Black Power Encyclopedia(1965-1975), a two-volume reference work that explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States.

Saeeda Hafiz is the award-winning author of the book, The Healing: One Woman’s Journey from Poverty to Inner Riches. She is a yoga teacher and wellness expert with certifications from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and the Natural Gourmet Institute. As a holistic health educator with the San Francisco Unified School District, she focuses on sharing her knowledge of physical and mental wellness with diverse groups. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.