This powerful dance performance by Jonas Byaruhanga gives us a glimpse into the beginning of 16th Century when millions of Africans were kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped like cargo, under horrific conditions across the Atlantic to South America, the Caribbean and the nascent USA. The creative exploration through dance depicts constriction and resistance during the “Middle Passage” to the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation as exemplified in the late arrival of freedom on “Juneteenth.” It is a metaphor for the apocalyptic times we are experiencing now under the added weight of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the global George Floyd Rebellions and cautions us to always remember and pay homage to our ancestors and heritage as African people, wherever we are in this world. Finally, “Freedom: Breaking the Chains” is a reminder that reconciliation with this nation’s past and present cannot be achieved without truthfully confronting history and finding a way forward that is ultimately responsible and reflective and that ensure that we “break the chains” and obtain freedom, justice, and democracy for all humanity.