Arts & Entertainment
We wanted to know how people celebrated the 4th of July, so we asked around on 23rd Street and MacDonald.
Nicholl Park was blessed in prayer and dance Saturday afternoon as Native American Indians respresenting over 50 tribes from as far away as South Dakota, New Mexico, Long Beach, Calif., and Sacramento travelled to Richmond to participate in its 2nd Annual Native American Pow-Wow.
A parade of African-American cowboys from Oakland, corvettes from around the bay, local youth associations and sports leagues and a host of others paraded through central Richmond Saturday in the city’s long-running annual Juneteenth festival. The parade was led by grand marshal Fred Jackson, a long-time community activist, and ended in Nicholl Park.
On Saturday, Richmond will kick off its annual Juneteenth festival with a parade, two stages of music, activities for kids and a host of food vendors in Nicholl Park.
Big ideas about education and emotion flowed through the Craneway Pavillion at the TEDxGoldenGateED conference over the weekend. The ideas found a receptive audience in the roughly 700 in attendance at the Saturday conference that attracted teachers, parents, therapists and others from throughout the Bay Area. The day included a packed schedule of speakers, performers and workshops that revolved around the central theme of compassion.
Nine months of school, homework and studying are soon to be over, and Richmond’s young citizens can’t wait to start their holiday. But the summer break also brings some problems. One of them is so called “summer learning loss” — the loss of certain knowledge and academic skills during the summer school vacation months.
John F. Kennedy High School students, parents and teachers got a first-person history of the Freedom Rides when Alameda Contra Costa Transit District’s Freedom Bus rolled up at the school Thursday. The presentation took place at an open house for Kennedy High parents.
Richmond’s Lincoln Elementary School playground and parking lot were turned into a Bike Fiesta Saturday, with scores of neighborhood bike riders and dozens of bicycling enthusiasts from throughout the city coming out to celebrate cycling. It was mild mayhem as bike-riding youngsters careened, sometimes on wobbly wheels, around the school grounds dodging bystanders and each other.
The Richmond Art Center, the Plunge and Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active National Park Ranger, were among this year’s Historic Preservation Awards recipients.