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Liberation through healing, Saba marks starts of Slavery Commemoration Year. | SMN NEWS

July 3, 2023

Liberation through healing, Saba marks starts of Slavery Commemoration Year. | SMN NEWS
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SABA:--- Saba marked the start of the Commemoration Year of the Slavery Past on Saturday, July 1, with a well-attended Emancipation Day event with a number of speakers and a number of powerful performances.

The event’s theme, ‘liberation through healing,’ was most fitting, said Commissioner of Culture Eviton Heyliger. “Although healing hundreds of years of trauma will not happen overnight, we need to start the dialogue. By engaging in healing practices, as a community we can reclaim our agency, reconnect with our inner strength, and restore our sense of wholeness,” he said in his …

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