Freedom’s Eve

Zion Spotlight

Watch Night 2025
ByDebra Chappelle-Polk, Zion Spotlight Editor December 25, 2024

New York, NY – January 2025…, Watch Night Services are held in many Black churches nationwide on New Year’s Eve to commemorate the official end to slavery, reflect on faith, and celebrate community and strength. The first Watch Night Service (“Freedom’s Eve”) was held on December 31, 1862. Enslaved people, abolitionists, and others across the…

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Entertainment & The Arts

Freedom’s Eve
ByRev. Dierdre' R. Parker, Entertainment & Arts Editor February 6, 2024

The term Gullah Geechee, refers to the descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo, and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic Coast. The Gullah Geechee culture calls to mind the Sea Islands of South Carolin and Georgia, and sweetgrass baskets. Yet the cultural legacy of the ancestors still runs warm…

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