Lansing Common FC, in partnership with One Love Global, is excited to announce the club’s June 12 home game will be Juneteenth Recognition night at Eastern Stadium. The evening will feature education around the upcoming Juneteenth Holiday and organizations actively doing anti-racist and community organizing work in Lansing, as well as promotion of upcoming Juneteenth events taking place the week of June 12-19 in Lansing, inviting fans to participate in honoring the holiday.
One Love Global and partner organizations will be at the game and will share about work that is ongoing in the Lansing area to advance racial equity. Lansing Common FC players will wear special Juneteenth recognition warmups, and t-shirts with the same design will be available for fans to purchase with proceeds being donated to One Love Global’s Beloved Community Fund.
Inspired by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s beloved community, One Love Global envisions a Metro Lansing where we are in deep loving relationships with one another, where we can collectively heal from generations of racialized trauma, and where the very structures of our community reflect and uphold racial equity. Through the Beloved Community Fund, One Love Global is investing in that future. We have an opportunity to supply young people with the tools they need to create change alongside us and to take up the mantle beyond us. Racial equity is imperative, and when led with love, inevitable. With your help, we can build on our progress together and continue to move forward. Donate here to support the Beloved Community Fund.
In addition, Lansing Common will share information about its participation in the Anti-Racist Soccer Club coalition and opportunities for fans to engage in those efforts.
“One Love Global is an amazing organization that has a great impact in the Lansing area,” said Lansing Common President Eric Walcott. “I’ve had the privilege of participating in a variety of programs they offer, which has contributed to my own personal journey of anti-racism work. I’m thrilled to be able to support them with this effort, and honored to have their partnership in this event.”
June 19th, or Juneteenth, is a holiday that commemorates the day when the news of the legal end to slavery reached the final corners of our nation in Texas, where Black people were still being held captive more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In 2020, the Movement for Black Lives recognized the importance of the moment in saying:
“Juneteenth is a day that honors Black freedom and Black resistance, and centers Black people’s unique contribution to the struggle for justice in the U.S. This Juneteenth is a rare moment for our communities to proclaim in one voice that Black Lives Matter, and that we won’t tolerate anything less than justice for all our people.”
To learn more about the history of Juneteenth, click here. For Lansing area Juneteenth celebration and education events, please visit the Lansing Juneteenth Celebration or 517 Juneteenth Festival websites.
The match will take place June 12 at 5pm at Eastern Stadium as Lansing Common takes on Michigan Jaguars in Midwest Premier League action. Tickets are just $5 and available online or at the gate.
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