There’s nothing that can break the bond when spirit melds with genius. And so, it happened at the Cooperative Culture Collective’s Juneteenth event in Von King Park’s Almira Coursey Amphitheater, Saturday, June 15. Host Wright called audience members to embrace and pray for a young man who had just found out he would be attending college in the fall. Wright, impromptu, called on all to form a circle of protection around the young brother. Other graduates joined the circle for the Juneteenth experience.
Graham B. Weatherspoon, an event speaker, quickly picked up the frequency, and joined the group to offer prayer. The moment was unscripted, unrestrained, unchoreographed and liberating. Mothers wept. Young people, too. Wright called it later “a phenomenal power moment.” But how did it happen? “I am in touch with my spiritual self all the time,” he responded. “I download from the Most High.” B.Greene
(All photos: Barry L. Mason)