The Cooper Family Foundation held its Juneteenth celebration at Memorial Park, continuing a decades-long legacy
The Cooper family has been hosting its Juneteenth celebration for so many years, it is a mainstay tradition in southeastern San Diego. But as national recognition for the holiday, which commemorates the true end of slavery, has grown in recent years, so has the Coopers’.
The celebration included a drum line, a procession of Pan-African flags, dancers, musical performers and the Teye Sa Thiosanne African Drum & Dance Company, which performing a libation, or an offering to the spiritual world, led by 71-year-old Kadumu Moyenda of Golden Hill. “The County of San Diego has given us all the day off on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth and what I’m going to ask everybody to do is I want you to spend your money in the African American community. I want you to go buy from our Black community,” said Vargas, who spoke at the event.
“I think it’s that the community has come together more. use to be like a block party, and I am just so happy to see this many people here today,” Brown said. “This, by far, surpassed my expectations of it.”The holiday marks the day the final slaves were freed following the end of the Civil War
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