Lots of of group members turned out for the sold-out Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 on Thursday.
The occasion, introduced by Hella Artistic, invited the group to collect in celebration of Black freedom, creativity and legacy. The festivity featured meals distributors, a Black Vine wine-tasting expertise, two levels of dwell music, artwork and distributors.
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The expanded VIP expertise included curated drink tastings and unique entry to the City Fare Solar Deck, the place meals by native movie star chef Michelle McQueen was served. Additionally featured was the Cookout Plate, spotlighting beloved native Black cooks and eating places.
Nationally, President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in every of his first 4 years as president, even earlier than it turned a federal vacation. He even claimed as soon as to have made it “very famous.”
However on this 12 months’s Juneteenth vacation on Thursday, the often talkative president stored silent a couple of day vital to Black Individuals for marking the tip of slavery within the nation he leads once more.
Trump has beforehand sought to finish range, fairness and inclusion insurance policies throughout the nation. In 2021, Congress designated Juneteenth, which celebrates the tip of slavery following enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, as a federal vacation.
Wesley Park, 3, of Oakland, dances through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Folks hearken to DJ Lexapeel through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Jasmin Canfield, of Oakland, gesture as she shows her t-shirt through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Bernice Watkins, of San Francisco, left, dances with others through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)D.J. Lexapeel spins tunes through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Charmayne Sterling and her son Ajani Sterling, of San Pablo pose for a photograph through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)A barbecue rooster plate is served through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)D.J. Lexapeel spins tunes through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Folks dance to DJ Lexapeel through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Tanefer Camara, of Oakland, retailers at a vendor sales space through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Folks collect on the garden through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Voleine Amilcar, of Oakland, proper, dances with others through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)Folks watch from the higher stage through the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Pageant 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)
