Soul Summit in Central Park for Juneteenth March

This year, the joy is getting louder.

We are proud to announce that Soul Summit — the legendary Brooklyn DJs from Fort Green Park known for bringing people together through music, movement, and pure energy — will be joining us in Central Park for the Juneteenth March 4-Mile Walk / Run / Roll .

They will be bringing the sound, the rhythm, and the joy during and after the event, helping us make this year’s Juneteenth March not only a day of remembrance, but a true celebration of Black life in public.

In times like these, joy is not extra. Joy is necessary.

After the miles, after the movement, after we gather in the name of freedom, we will keep the energy going together in the park with Soul Summit helping us close the day in the right spirit.

So tell your people now: this is not just a walk, not just a run, not just a roll, and not just a march.

This is movement, memory, music, and joy — all in one.

Join us on Friday, June 19 in Central Park .

Get Your Bibs

https://www.juneteenthmarch.org

Let’s celebrate with joy, and work on health and equity.

Juneteenth is a strategic admission of America’s original sin. We fought for this holiday, and we must use it.

My Work on Data Slavery

Slavery did not simply exploit labor. Slavery devoured human possibility. It took breath and made it profit. It took hands and made them property. It took generations and converted them into wealth for others.

So let us be clear: reparations are not a side conversation. They are not an extra demand. They are the necessary answer to a foundational crime.

And the truth is, that old crime taught this country a habit it has never fully broken: the habit of turning human life into extractable value.

That is the warning at the heart of Your Data, Their Wealth . We are told that the AI economy is new, that it is innovative, that it is inevitable. But beneath the sleek language and the futuristic branding is a very old arrangement: people create value, power captures it, and wealth consolidates upward.

Yesterday it was our forced labor. Today it is also our data, our creativity, our behavior, our culture, our constant unpaid contribution to systems we do not own.

That is why reparations are still necessary. Because the wound is historical, but the pattern is ongoing. Because the theft was old, but the extraction is still with us. Because freedom that does not repair what was broken is not yet freedom made whole.

That is the truth Juneteenth calls us to face. And that is why the call for reparations remains urgent.