Daily News | ‘It’s Blackness!’ Spectators say Philly’s Juneteenth parade makes the holiday known and valued.
As the Philadelphia Juneteenth Parade rumbled by her along 52nd Street on Sunday morning, Ashley Taylor eyed her sons, ages 7 and 2, as they watched while sitting on the curb.
Then her face brightened as the answer came: “It’s Blackness!” she said. “It’s how we value our Blackness. It’s who we are.”parade continued on under an impossibly blue sky, likely offering similar inspiration and meaning to countless others along the nearly two-mile route through West Philadelphia.Abbott Elementary
The event, which had been suspended at the start of the pandemic, was first held in 2016. It’s produced by the Pennsylvania Juneteenth Initiative, a group that has worked for years to help make June 19 — the date when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 and gave word to enslaved African Americans that they were free — a national holiday.
includingmusic, art, and food held at Malcolm X Park at 52nd and Pine Streets. That it coincided with Father’s Day seemed to make the celebration more special for participants and spectators, many of whom shouted, “Happy Father’s Day,” to men who happened by. That created an interesting jumble of eye-catching items in haphazard juxtaposition: funnel cakes next to a rack of “Black Girls Rock” earrings next to a spot offering free pain relief.
“It was a great opportunity for me to tell them it’s about the end of slavery,” Bey said. “And now they know.”
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