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SAVANNAH NATIVES HONORED FOR WORK
IN INDUSTRY & COMMUNITY
DOVE COMEDY AWARD RECIPIENT AKINTUNDE
& GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BIG BOI
TO BE HONORED AT 2022 JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL
JUNE 16, 2022 / SAVANNAH GA - Two Windsor Forest High School alumni and Savannah natives, rapper Andre “Big Boi” Patton, and comedian and screenwriter, Akintunde Warnock have been selected as honorees for this year’s Juneteenth Freedom Day Festival. Big Boi is one half of the legendary Grammy Award winning rap duo Outkast and an entrepreneur. Akintunde is a Dove Comedy Award recipient, podcaster, and television writer with over 350 original television hours as writing credits who writes and “ghost” writes for some of the biggest names in comedy. Other honorees to include late educator, Mrs. Dorothy Johnson and Neeali Muhammad among others.
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The Daughters of Mary Magdalene and the City of Savannah will host the Original Juneteenth Festival Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Wells Park, also known as 38th Street Park. Many live entertainment performers will grace the Juneteenth celebration stage, such as the Tommy Stokes Band, E. Larry McDuffie and the St. John Baptist Male Choir and Brother Balance, to name a few.
Juneteenth is the nationally recognized commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to tell enslaved African Americans they were free, and the Civil War was over. This came more than two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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