For more than one-and-a-half centuries, Juneteenth has been sacred to many Black communities. Here's a look at how the Bay Area spent the historical holiday.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, Juneteenth has been sacred to many Black communities. Here's a look at how the Bay Area honored the holiday celebrating freedom.It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed - after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
It was an emotional commemoration of Juneteenth at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Wednesday. Hundreds gathered for song, speeches and to help recreate a live art installation in honor of the holiday. "Children were taken from us. We were raped by our enslavers. We were purchased to bring new life into chattel slavery," said King.
As for King, she says even though this was a one day only recreation, her work is far from done. She plans on continuing to use her art as a way to express her beliefs and her culture.Remembrance and celebration in the East Bay "They were ultimately asked to continue loading munitions and not given proper training," said Yulie Padmore, the executive director of the Port Chicago Alliance. "They were told if they did not continue with that training they would be convicted."
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