San Francisco celebrated the Juneteenth holiday with a parade and festival along Market Street Saturday morning. The event has grown over the years, and while the holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in America, it took a while for that promise to become a reality.
As the parade marchers began assembling at 2nd and Market, a man named Goody was already set up, selling t-shirts calling Juneteenth “the real Independence Day.”
“It’s kind of given to us. Like, y’all have a day. You know, Juneteenth,” he said. ”It’s our 4th of July. Our Independence Day. It’s, like, a separate type thing.”…