NAACP to hold Jubilee celebration
The Atlanta Branch of the NAACP will hold its annual observance of the Emancipation Proclamation at Jubilee Day at 11 a.m. Monday at Friendship Baptist Church, 437 Mitchell Street.
This year’s Jubilee Day will honor Atlanta’s civil rights foot soldiers, as well as members of the black media who assisted in telling their stories.
The NAACP marks Jubilee Day as a chance for African Americans to come together to celebrate their freedom from slavery.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
