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Juneteenth

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Company Brings in Guy in a Gorilla Suit to Celebrate Juneteenth, Lawsuit Claims

    Employees to Carey: Slow your roll.​Here in post-racial America, where having a black president gives Americans a carte blanche to throw political and humane correctness to the wind, race is something to be joked about at all times. It's Juneteenth, the day reserved to celebrate the end of sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Juneteenth: A Gulf Coast Good Time In A Hipster-Free Zone

    Photos courtesy of Miller Theatre Advisory BoardGlen David Andrews (left) and "Mardi Gras Indian" Terrence Gasper​Sunday's Juneteenth extravaganza at Miller Outdoor Theatre proved to be another chapter in why, here at Rocks Off, we love our town. In spite of Hades-like mid-afternoon temperatur ... More >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2011

    Juneteenth Celebration

    Photos courtesy of Miller Theatre Advisory BoardGlen David Andrews (left) and "Mardi Gras Indian" Terrence Gasper​Sunday's Juneteenth extravaganza at Miller Outdoor Theatre proved to be another chapter in why, here at Rocks Off, we love our town. In spite of Hades-like mid-afternoon temperatur ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    Houston Black Dance Festival

    Photos courtesy of Miller Theatre Advisory BoardGlen David Andrews (left) and "Mardi Gras Indian" Terrence Gasper​Sunday's Juneteenth extravaganza at Miller Outdoor Theatre proved to be another chapter in why, here at Rocks Off, we love our town. In spite of Hades-like mid-afternoon temperatur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Another Lawsuit Alleging Racism In The Houston Fire Department

    HFD: Another racism lawsuit, although this time the plaintiff is representing himself​A noose found hanging in a locker. The word "Nigger" spelled in graffiti on an African-American woman's dressing quarters. Sadly, the Houston Fire Department has for years been plagued with acts and allegations o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Raekwon The Chef Can't Cook Up A Delicious Performance

    Photos by Marco Torres​Rap is a cultural celebration of telling, through music, what it is real today, right now; not what was real two years ago as happened on June 19, 1865 when word finally reached Galveston that President Lincoln had freed the slaves... two years previous. At midnight on ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    A Gulf Coast Juneteenth

    Photos by Marco Torres​Rap is a cultural celebration of telling, through music, what it is real today, right now; not what was real two years ago as happened on June 19, 1865 when word finally reached Galveston that President Lincoln had freed the slaves... two years previous. At midnight on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009
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    June 19, 2008

    Annual Summer Concert: A Juneteenth Celebration

    Houston Ebony Guild marks the holiday with music from composers Adolphus Hailstork, Robert Morris and Houston’s own Lela Anderson in “African American Spirituals: The Tradition Renewed”

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Juneteenth Celebration

    Talk about a slow boat

  • Music

    June 12, 2008

    Juneteenth Revisited

    Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event

  • Calendar

    July 26, 2007

    Urban Theater Festival

    Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2006

    One More for Freedom

    Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2006

    Worldly Moves

    Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2006

    Emancipation Jam

    Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    A Star in Reborn, Again

    Former Houstonian Charles Kathryn McGuire has been a millionaire, a transvestite, a socialite, a political candidate and a woman. Now, with son James's first play on stage in New York City, she's Daddy Kathryn.

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