Juneteenth 2024: Honoring and Acknowledging Our Past and Our Present

Organizer and Leader Debra Jeffreys-Glass created this event and has put it on for many many years now.

This was the best yet!

The Honoree of the day Robert Humber. “Bob” Park guardian who watches over the plants and people – especially the most vulnerable among us – there is no one else quite like him.

M’Finda Kalunga Garden Thanks you.

NYC Parks Thanks you.

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition Thanks you.

 

The Honoree of the day Robert Humber. “Bob” Park guardian who watches over the plants and people – especially the most vulnerable among us – there is no one else quite like him.

M’Finda Kalunga Garden Thanks you.

NYC Parks Thanks you.

Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition Thanks you.

Thank you for the Proclamation Congressman Dan Goldman!

Great to see our new NYC Parks Man Borough Commissioner here Tricia Shimamura. Welcome! And our Council Member Marte. FABnyc’s Ryan Gilliam with ‘Halo’ artist Immanuel Oni!

Our long time Sara Roosevelt Park former Managers (now) Dep. Chief of Operations Jamil Phillips and (now) Regional Manager Teresa Flores, and all our NYC Park workers here!

Forsyth Satellite Students and teacher Paula Walters Parker & their gorgeous artwork!

Bobby Bryan’s R&B band!

Tenement Museum long-time guardian of the past, New Museum ensuring all artists are known & seen.

 

Healing Drum Circle

Eddie Jeffreys-Glass historian and reader.

And of course the hardest working crew ever: Fran Brown, Bud Shalala, and Carina Liu!

Irit Houvas, Jim Cusick, Carlo, Ted, K, and many others who pitched in!

 

And here are a few bonus photos taken by Carol Prud’homme Davis who leads the Inside Change from Within organization working with artists,

some without homes.

 

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