The City Of Cambridge Holds 4th Annual Juneteenth Parade And Celebration

Jay Willett

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Blackbride is on full display for the Juneteenth Holiday in Cambridge,
marking the day in eighteen sixty five when federal troops
arrived in Texas to free slaves following the Emancipation Proclamation.
What do you have to say?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I got a side five fucking boning and making noise.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Our city does to say, we don't want to go back,
So not to go back, we have to remember so
we can continue to go forward with peace, with integrity
and fairness. To support the idea of.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Diversity, Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons says the holiday's message needs
to carry beyond a day a week to the three
hundred and sixty five days and a year.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Diversity does not happen on its own.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The parade swoops down out of Central Square and wraps
up with a concert at Riverside Park, courtesy of the
School of Hawk Marching Band in Cambridge. J Willette WVZ,
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