One of Lexington’s biggest Juneteenth events now takes place at Gatton Park; on Saturday, Soulfest filled the amphitheater with the smells of BBQ while music wafted from the stage as friends hugged and visited.
And a little way off from the party, a man wept.
DeBraun Thomas had waited and worked for this moment for the past 10 years. Amidst all the celebrations, a historical marker had just been unveiled to commemorate the death of Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin, who was shot in the back by a white man as he tried to register Black voters on Oct. 2, 1900…