Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. (born February 29, 1956) is an American physician, medical missionary, Baptist minister, jazz musician, composer, arranger and civil rights activist. Interested in the Juneteenth slave freedom holiday, Myers is the leader of the "Modern Juneteenth Movement" in America, founder and chairman of the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign, National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) and the National Association of Juneteenth Jazz Presenters (NAJJP). Myers is also the founder and chairman of the American Pain Institute (API), the Myers Foundation For Indigent Health Care & Community Development and the Fellowship of Creative Christian Jazz Musicians (FCCJM).
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| - Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. (born February 29, 1956) is an American physician, medical missionary, Baptist minister, jazz musician, composer, arranger and civil rights activist. Interested in the Juneteenth slave freedom holiday, Myers is the leader of the "Modern Juneteenth Movement" in America, founder and chairman of the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign, National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) and the National Association of Juneteenth Jazz Presenters (NAJJP). Myers is also the founder and chairman of the American Pain Institute (API), the Myers Foundation For Indigent Health Care & Community Development and the Fellowship of Creative Christian Jazz Musicians (FCCJM).
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| - Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D. (born February 29, 1956) is an American physician, medical missionary, Baptist minister, jazz musician, composer, arranger and civil rights activist. Interested in the Juneteenth slave freedom holiday, Myers is the leader of the "Modern Juneteenth Movement" in America, founder and chairman of the National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign, National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) and the National Association of Juneteenth Jazz Presenters (NAJJP). Myers is also the founder and chairman of the American Pain Institute (API), the Myers Foundation For Indigent Health Care & Community Development and the Fellowship of Creative Christian Jazz Musicians (FCCJM). In 2000, he founded the Washington Juneteenth National Holiday Observance and the National Day of Reconciliation & Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement, which includes the National Juneteenth Black Holocaust "Maafa" Memorial Service. In 2004 and 2005, he organized "America's In Pain!" - March on Washington - "Silent No More!", demanding congressional hearings on the pain treatment crises in America. In 2010, he founded the World Day of Reconciliation & Healing From the Legacy of Enslavement. Myers is the founder of Madison Medicus - University of Wisconsin Medical School African American Alumni Association, the University of Wisconsin African American Alumni Association and the African American Alumni Foundation of the University of Wisconsin. In 2006, Myers became the owner of the Major League Baseball basketball team, the Mississippi Miracles.
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