Short Stuff: Watch Night

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2025-01-01

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Watch Night has been observed on New Year’s Eve by African-American Methodists in the US since 1862, to mark the passage of the Emancipation Act. But this religious holiday goes back even farther in history, with even more layers of meaning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • So it's appropriate that we are talking about Watch Night tonight because it is a long standing tradition in the African American community, specifically the African American Methodist community, that every New Year's Eve they typically hold a service starting maybe around 7pm and maybe 10pm and that it traditionally ends just after midnight after the New Year.