As Simesha McEachern told the crowd at the Santa Fe Plaza on Saturday afternoon, “Only those who have lived without freedom really understand what it means.”
McEachern continued, referring to the day — June 19, 1865 — when Union troops arrived on the southeastern shore of Texas to declare the end of slavery, “Can you imagine that first free breath?”
Hundreds of people commemorated that moment at the city’s fourth annual Juneteenth on the Plaza on Saturday afternoon and evening, where attendees celebrated African American culture and reflected on the harmful manifestations of racism in the past and present.
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