I DID THAT!! 🥰✊🏽🫶🏽 5 YEARS!! We grandfathered in! ✊🏽🫶🏽
This year’s Juneteenth Block Party was the most challenging and the most beautiful one yet.
With less funding, more city red tape, and the weight of balancing my full-time advocacy work while producing this celebration of freedom, community, and cannabis culture—i still made it happen. And not only that… it was BEST year yet.
“Take that! Take that!”
To the community—thank you for showing up with love, joy, and power.
To our sponsors, DJ
@djloestarnyc1 ,
@adalkeira incredible artist who painted with the kids, brought joy with face painting, and read It’s Just a Plant—your energy was pure light. The ones who captured it on film/video
@malalaschild @savtheselfiephotographer @pp_photoz ! The MCs
@sweetsho26 &
@tanbilzerian ! To
@dcscroger for always coming w that soil love/ education! ✊🏽Our amazing Artis’s
@chocolatebrown_ and
@graceface_killah ! Community partner
@ehp10029 , sound people
@baldosound , SBS, engine 35, ladder 14, small businesses- like
@ricardosteakhousenyc helping get the meat for the gril! Resource tables, the grill masters
@teddys_fnb ,
@weedcyclers for the awesome awards and helping save the planet! ✊🏽
@hula_hoop_fit_366 who was the real party of the block party! Shout out to
@cocotazocateringllc for donating a ton of food- that we forgot to pick up, but ended up at a local senior center . ✊🏽 And BIG shout out to the the volunteers—thank you for pouring into this event with your time, your work, and your hearts.
To our councilwoman
@cmdianaayalanyc thank you for standing with us.
To my mom, who held down the block from 8am, letting folks use her bathroom when the portable toilets never arrived—you’re the real MVP.
And to everyone who supported behind the scenes to bring this 5th annual celebration to life—you helped me stay grounded when it felt like the odds were stacked. 🙏🏽
@sin_bri_jess
I am so deeply grateful. This was a labor of love, resistance, and community magic.
Stay tuned for photos, videos, and some special shoutouts to those who held it down!
#JuneteenthBlockParty #AllThatJiveNYC #CommunityPower #Gratitude #EastHarlemLove #WeStillHere
