The Juneteenth Ritual of Remembrance

Omnira Institute's 18th Annual Juneteenth Ritual of Remembrance includes Oro Egun (a sung litany honoring the ancestors) and Ring Shout (an African American ritual dance), in keeping with the original celebrants’ practice, and prayers of thanks that slavery was finally over. OI invites members of the First Nation, who were enslaved first, to pray as well as members of the religions and traditions of the enslaved people when they were taken from Africa: Ifa, Palo Mayombe, Vodun, and the Abrahamic religions of Judaism. Christianity, Islam.