Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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On Sunday, June 18th, 2017, Tai Amri Spann-Ryan gave a powerful and moving sermon at the Lawrence, KS Unitarian Fellowship in celebration of #Juneteenth and the on-going struggle for liberation. The talk audibly left the crowd speechless for several seconds afterward.

It is truly a message for our time - a call for all of us to embrace the wisdom of our ancestors and reaffirm our search for the complete and total liberation of all our relations.

A transcript of the talk is available here: filmsforaction.org/articles/juneteenth-praise-the-lorde-audre-lorde