Spiritual Healing and Renewal Ceremony at the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2015

When we got to the River, the healing ceremonies began in earnest. After the libations and the practitioners
healing rituals, the priestess in the center left the altar and began to bless the drummers. She later told me she hadn't planned to do what she did. The ancestors called her and so she answered.

Master Drummer Sidiki Paul Lancaster is given a ritual cleansing.

Eurika Huggins Axum with poet and special guest, Nana Farika Berhane,
VP World African Diaspora Union. She shared lovely poetry.

Oso Tayari Casel, Founder, African Martial Arts Academy,
gave the keynote address at the River. He told us the adults were the ancestors our children
would be consulting, so we needed to get healthy and strong for the task.

Oso Tayari Casel bows to Iya Motilewa Osunniyi

Mrs. Eurika Huggins Axum presents the 2015 Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors Award to Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher, Washington Informer, Editor, National Black Newspaper Association. He husband accepts the award on her behalf. She is in Detroit that morning. 

Libations are poured into the river.