Purple, not flowers, ball

Amarillo Zoo
Amarillo, Texas
15 June 2025

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20 June 2025 World Refugee Day

World Refugee Day Playlist
Refugee – Eric Bogle
Gourma – Etran Fintawa
Song To A Refugee – Diana Jones
Running – Keyon Harrold, Andrea Pizziconi & Jasson Harrold Running, feat. Common & Gregory Porter
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
The Refugee – U2
Follow Me – Moxie Raia, feat. Wyclef Jean
In Harm’s Way – Amanda Palmer
Is This Called Home – Lucy Rose
Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
Coming to America – K’naan
Refugee – Skip Marley
Lady of the Harbor – Si Kahn
Refugee – emma’s revolution
We Won’t Lose Count – TRISHES
Refugee – Bring Water
Refugees – Jimmy Cliff, feat, Wyclef Jean
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles, feat. John Legend
Émigré – Alela Diane
Living Like a Refugee – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
World Refugee Day – The Lyrical Lanterns
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes

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Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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Juneteenth 19 June 2025

Juneteenth.
Juneteenth – Suav
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Free – Prince
Free – Deniece Williams
Is My Living in Vain – Mattie Moss Clark & The Clark Sisters
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Now – Tracy Chapman
I’m Just a Slave – The Roots
Not a Slave – Dre’ Sr
Freedom – Richie Havens
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Juneteenth – Cast of Black-ish
Say It Loud – I ‘m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
A Brand New Day – The Wiz
Fantasy – Earth, Wind & Fire
Yes We Can, Can – The Pointer Sisters
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) – Digibale Planets
Soul Sista – Bilal
Freedom – Joi
O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
Free – Destiny’s Child
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddons & Yo-Yo Ma
Juneteenth Song – Gracie’s Corner
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – Beyonce

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Purple flowers, Hannibal, Missouri 12

Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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Purple flowers, Hannibal, Missouri 11

Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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17 June 2025 – Mother Emanuel

Tenth anniversary of Mother Emanuel.

Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Kehembe Eichelberger
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
There Is a Balm In Gilead – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Drown In My Own Tears – Richie Havens
Ghosts of Charleston – Marc S. Kruza
Mother Emanuel – Shirley Caesar
Emanuel – Dead 27s
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Of Our New Day Begun – Northern Arizona University Wind Symphony & Stephen Meyer

Remembering those who were murdered: the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson.

Remembering those present who survive — Polly Sheppard, Tywanza’s mother Felicia Sanders and her granddaughter, and the pastor’s wife, Jennifer Pinckney and one of their daughters.

Remembering the community which survives.

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Purple flowers, Hannibal, Missouri 9

Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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Purple flowers, Hannibal, Missouri 8

Hannibal, Missouri
31 May 2025

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