Irth's Juneteenth Community Cookout

Irth's Juneteenth Community Cookout

Family Cookout honoring Juneteenth and celebrating Black Birthing Liberation. Join us for an afternoon of games, food, and prizes!

By Kimberly Seals Allers

Date and time

Sunday, June 23 · 2 - 6pm EDT

Location

South Mountain Reservation

Cherry Lane West Orange, NJ 07052

About this event

  • 4 hours


Heyyyy Cousins Get ready to vibe with us at the Cookout and celebrate Black joy and community this Juneteenth! Join us on June 23rd from 2pm to 6pm in Essex County for an afternoon filled with good food, good people, and great vibes! We’ll be serving up some of our favorite summer staple foods and barbecue favorites, along with refreshing drinks, and sweet treats.
This family-friendly event is perfect for new and expecting families with children under 3 years old. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect with other local families and to learn more about community resources. There’ll be vendors, games, giveaways, raffles and more!
We are excited to celebrate Juneteenth with you! RSVP today.

This event is dedicated to honoring and supporting expecting and new parents as they embark on this incredible journey. Enjoy a festive atmosphere filled with music, laughter, and joy as we come together to celebrate the miracle of new life and the strength of parenthood.

This event promises to be an inspiring and empowering experience for all attendees, providing you with valuable information, resources, and connections to support you on your parenting journey.


The Hosts: Irth (as in Birth, but we dropped the B for bias) is a non-profit, ‘Yelp-like’ app for Black & brown parents to find and leave reviews of their OB/GYNs, birthing hospitals, and pediatricians. On the back end, we turn our anonymous reviews into data to help hospitals provide more respectful and equitable care and hold them accountable to our community. We're on a mission to make sure every Black mom, dad, or parent gets the pregnancy and birthing experience they deserve. Irth is a grant-funded project of Narrative Nation. Learn more about Irth at https://irthapp.com/. (https://irthapp.com/) Follow us on social media at @TheIrthApp on Instagram & Facebook.


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Organized by

Kimberly Seals Allers

Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author, international speaker, strategist and advocate for maternal and infant health. Kimberly consistently leads powerful presentations across the U.S. as well as in Australia and the U.K. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a recognized thought-leader on the socio-cultural and racial complexities of birth, breastfeeding and motherhood.

 was recently named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century”  for 2018 by Women’s eNews for her media advocacy work. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and Washington Post, Slate and others, her online commentaries received over 10 million page views last year.  

As a consultant, Kimberly provides strategic communication services to corporations that impact mothers, non-profits, public health-related organizations and others, with an expertise in engaging communities of color. 

For over seven years, she has led innovative community-based projects in New Orleans, Birmingham, Detroit and Philadelphia that explore the impact of “first food deserts”—communities that severely lack accessible resources to support mothers who choose to breastfeed—and designed community-partnered strategies to transform these areas into more breastfeeding supportive environments.