The Retire Advocate
June
2026
Join Us for Juneteenth!
Saturday, June 20, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church 124 21st Avenue, Seattle
With Special Guest Mr. Delbert Richardson
We invite you and your neighbors, family, friends, and fellow workers to a very special Juneteenth celebration. This year, PSARA is honored to feature Mr. Delbert Richardson.
Mr. Richardson is a Community Scholar, Ethnomuseumologist, and Second-Generation Storyteller, of the “Unspoken Truths”: National Award-Winning American History Traveling Museum.
With the use of authentic artifacts, storyboards, and the ancient art of "storytelling," Richardson teaches "American History" through an Afrocentric lens. His work is broken into four sections:
Mother Africa, which focuses on the many contributions by Africans in the area of science, technology engineering, art, and mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.);
American Chattel Slavery, the brutal treatment and psychological impacts on African Americans of the Diaspora;
The Jim Crow Era, the racial caste system that focused on the creation and enforcement of legalized segregation;
Still We Rise, which focuses on the many contributions in the Americas, Black inventors/inventions.
Richardson's work is primarily geared towards K-12th grade students as well as professional development training.
For his work, Richardson has received a truly astonishing series of awards:
2013 National Campus Compact Newman Fellows Award
2017 National Education Assoc. (NEA) Human and Civil Rights Award
2019 Seattle Mayor Arts Award 2019 Seattle Crosscut Courage
in Culture Award
2020 Assoc. of King County Org. (AKCHO) Heritage Education Award
2020 National Marquis Who's Who Award
2021 Governor's Arts & Heritage "spotlight" Award
2021 Kwanzaa "Imani" Award 2021 Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) Educator of The Year
2022 Seattle Public Schools Dept. of Racial Equity Advancement (DREA) Outstanding Educator Award
2023 Sri Chinmoy Oneness-home Peace Run Award
2023 Certificate of Achievement/Cultural Space Agency
2024 WASA (Wash. Assoc. of School Administrators) Certificate Of Merit
2024 PSESD (Puget Sound Ed. Service Dept.) Transformational Partner Leadership Award
PSARA thanks Mr. Delbert Richardson; our host, Pastor Robert Jeffrey, Sr., and New Hope Missionary Baptist Church; Faith Action Network; and the Abe Keller Peace Foundation.