>> ancestors for freedoms and all others who dared to define, defend and develop our interest as a people, we pour. for our elders who helped us give us wisdom and strength for our fathers, mothers who rest in the valley of the departed, we

pour. for the youth, who represent the future and tomorrow we pour. for remembrance of many women, men, and the human rights struggle, we pour. for the new world we struggle to build, we pour. for the principle as our guides in and out of every day live, we pour. for our all mighty creator who makes all things possible, we pour. thank you. we now want to bring up our mc for today. mr. shawn william.

>> we are not doing that. some of y'all is acting like you don't have hot burns on the back of your neck right now. acting real upty, this is our celebration and you guys are acting real real real upty right now. happy juneteenth. [applause] stop playing with me. this mic moves, i can go everywhere. i see you. we are going to be celebrating us, black music. really just music because music is black music. we create when we have nothing-we create everything, not something, everything. so, we are going to be celebrating ourselves, our music, our culture, our heritage and there are two rules. rules on a celebration? yes. rules on a celebration. rule number one, there are a lot of influential

people, inspirational people and young people who are inspirational in here. look to your, front, back, right. we are family in here. get all this golf clap out of your system now. we are not doing that today. introduce yourselves. get to know each other. yes. alright. i like that. i like that. we will be passing around the offerings in a minute, because we still have building fund to make sure we get that building. rule number two, and this is very important, i am mc for the evening. that means my job is to move this crowd. i receive my check early. it cleared. i would like to be the mc this year and year after that. you

guys, rule two, enjoy yourselves. there will be a lot of great music up here. we are not people of trouble, we are people of bass and drum so when the music hits your soul you better not give me that piedmont golf clap stuff. i know some have good iras and credit scores, but leave the 9 to 5 on the shelf and enjoy yourselves. we are going to enjoy ourselves. we are going to act like there is a wood en spoon and fork on the wall. we are going to act like there is a freezer behind me with a crisco can and chicken grease and you cannot mix those. we will be black like you got to go to the kitchen, go out to the garage, to the third freezer and get that meat. get the neck bones and ham hocs and thaw it in the sink.

we are going to enjoy our blackness. i like to come back next year. there are a lot coming up and move you. a lot of great speakers coming up. this is second annual. enjoy your is lf. celebrate yourself, embrace your blackness and learn how far our music has come. with that being said, i will bring up the first speaker, coming up. it is a honor and pleasure to bring up this woman. please make sure your respect every person-not yet? we are go toog ing to get in the african dance. hold on. we are going to get in the african dance.

(indiscernible) they are not asking me to come back just for that. shoot. amira. i got help. my family helped me out because i like to come back. give it up for the african dance act. no, no. that is golf clap. i messed it up. let's make the noise and start clapping. let's start clapping. thank you very much.

[music in the background] >> [unable to hear speaker]

[singing]

[singing and clapping]

[singing and clapping] >> we are free!

[singing]

[applause] [singing]

>> give it up one more time. give it up one more time! [singing and drums] >> everyone please give it up one more time!

>> clap it. clap it up. clap it up for them. >> also, we are asking if you are in the back to please minimize your conversation, because we can hear it up here in the front. i want to make sure we give the performers the respect they deserve. >> sarah can you hear me? >> i can hear you! >> can you hear me clear? >> loud and clear. >> that means if you can hear me back here you can hear me talking back here so we want to respect everyone who comes up to the microphone. i know you are talking about the show is so great and look at the costumes, but if we can keep it to a church whisper we greatly appreciate it for all the artists who comes up here and speakers. it is very important we listen to everyone as they come up. also, you don't have to stand. you guys do to protect us. you don't have to be on the wall. there are all kinds of seats where you can

sit. there are seats over there, so please, you will be here a little while, so please, keep it going. so, with that being said, i'm going to bring up the next speaker, the correct speaker, thank you very much for the assistance. we are going to bring up an very important person, start clapping now, not the golf clap for ms. felicia jones. keep it going. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you so much. what i want you to do is everybody stand up. put your hands up in the air and wave them flags like you just don't care. it is juneteenth. freedom day, jubilee day, emancipation day. wave them line you just don't care like you are enjoying what

we are doing for you. thank you so much. i see you in the back. thank you so much. we are happy to have you. thank you and look you guys are in here honey. our second annual mayor london breed juneteenth kick-off. yes. and we want to say thank you to our mayor and often times i call her my mayor, my boo, and anyone who knows me knows how much i love me some mayor breed, so we want to say thank you for all that you do. i understand that you have been on the news a lot, but everybody want to look at what she's not doing, but honey, you need to start reading those press releases so you can learn about what she is doing. [applause] alright. clap it up. what she is doing! clap it up. come on people. clap it up.

all you dki recipients up in here, getting money because of mayor breed and shamann walton, show your appreciation for these two on juneteenth day. ain't nobody else did anything for black folks in san francisco like the dki initiative. and so we say thank you. we say thank you. i want to say hello to all our esteemed guests. chief. hi! chief nicholson, hi! deputy chief, hi! okay. hi! kimberley, hi! shamann, hi! i i don't know you. >> i'm new. i'm

engardio. >> thank you. da brooks. and then too from my other employer, chief adams. assistant chief carter. chief fisher in the back. anybody else from san francisco sheriff department? anyone else? did i miss any other electeds? who? you are pointing, i don't know who you are pointing to. oh, preston. hi, dean preston. supervisor preston, welcome. yes. of course. where is dr. davis? director dr. cheryl davis. yes, we love her. we love her. and so with that, you know, i'm going to let you sit down while we bring up shamann. throw the

flags in the air and wave them like you just don't care! it is juneteenth. it is juneteenth and here's shamann walton, board of superriser. >> thank you so much felicia. real quick before i say a few words. i you want to stand up if you black. stand up if you black. so, i did that because i just wanted to see who claim us. so, i know when i walk outside. thank you everybody. you can sit down. so, first of all, as you know, juneteenth is a celebration, and it is celebration of a time period where slaves in texas did not realize and understand they were free and this was in 1865. and it took us all the way till 2022 to be

recognized as a national holiday, but i want to thank everyone in this room. i want to thank all the leaders in the city. i want to thank everyone across the state and country to come together to make sure juneteenth is recognized as a national holiday. you did that. give yourselves a hand. [applause] and we should not just be celebrating juneteenth and celebrating freedom when we get to this certain time period in june. we should be celebrating freedom, juneteenth, the accomplishments of black people, 24/7. not just in june and not just in february. [applause] now, there is another thing that happened in 1865, which makes the work we have been doing here in san francisco so prevalent today. we were promised 40 acres and

a mule in 1865. raise your hand if your ancestors got that 40 acres and a mule. okay, just checking. just seeing who is here with me. so, as we continue to make sure that we do everything we can in black leadership here in san francisco with the dream keeper initiative, with the folks who are working down at community making sure our people are connected to services, connected to resources, receiving or just doing san francisco, it is also very prevalent that we remember the reparations we were promised that we never received. so we'll keep fighting here in the city to make sure that black people receive their just due. we will make sure we right the wrongs of the past and we will make sure that we achieve equity here as a black community. i just want to say, thank you all for coming to celebrate with us on this second annual

juneteenth celebration right here in city hall. as you know, we have a black mayor. as you know, we have a lot of black leadership here in san francisco and we cannot let this be the end of black leadership as we go into the future. [applause] so, with that said, remember we have a gala tonight, remember we have a celebration in fillmore tomorrow, celebration in bayview sunday. celebrate juneteenth, enjoy yourself, have a good time and make sure you understand the meaning and why we celebrate this now, national holiday. thank you. [applause] give >> give it up one more time for shamann walton. about to get into the music portion. you ready for some music?

that was weak. you ready for some music? alright. we are about to get into right now. it is a spiritual with director cheryl evan davis. father daughter dance. our journey continues with jazz with sara and blues are teri. make noise now for the artists who are about to rock the stage right now. let's go. >> i often blame the mayor for people thinking i can sing. i will ask you all to do me a favor. first and foremost is recognize and understand the role of spiritual in the black experience and so i would say it is a dual purpose in the song and in the

singing so i'll ask you to do your best as i'm singing to listen to the words, and think about them with that dual message. on one front, it is about hope, and the belief that things will get better. that it is about whether it happens on this earth or in heaven or in the by and by, and on the other hand it is hidden message. it is call to freedom, it is call to the underground railroad, it is call to escape, so i'm just going to ask you to be thinking about that as we go through that. i'll ask you all that do believe to be praying. [piano playing and singing]

>> give it up one more time, one more time! for your director cheryl evan davis, lord! [music and singing]

[applause] >> please give it up one more time for rico and mazia. [applause] [piano playing] [singing]

[applause] >> thank you. so, i think a lot of you might know this, so go ahead and sing it with me. [piano and singing]

[singing summertime and the living is easy]

please give it up for marcus, dante and george. [singing]

>> give it one more

time for sanging. that wasn't singing, that was sanging. everybody alright? we good? alright. you good in the back? i know you are, because we hear you. >> take a moment to shake that off. that was good. sara. sit in it for a minute. i'm a blues singer. all this music you hear today, it came from the blues. we are the root. i'm going to do a song by one of my favorite blues singers, gospel singer ms. (indiscernible) can you put your hands

together? this is message i think everyone needs to hear. [guitar and singing]

[applause] i'm going to do a song i wrote. you see, we have seen a lot of changes happen around here in the bay area, and this song was inspired when was on facebook, and the police were called on the church for worship ing too loud and there was a drum circle on the lake and they were calling the police on the drummers. this song is entitled, gentrification blues.

[drums, guitar, singing]

>> give it up one more time! it is beautiful how we can take pain and make it into just

pleasure. i see people using fans now like it is church. it is getting hot, yeah! with that being said, we are about to take it to 1959. take it to a place called detroit, aka the motor city, where there was this brother named berry gordy who started a company with only $800 and decided to call it motown, home of icon-i was about to say legends but icon like stevie wonder, jackson 5, michael jackson, the supremes and my mama's favorite, marvin. start clapping now for the san francisco theater company.

nate the soul singer and ryan. >> how you doing? we got a couple temptation songs for you. you all ready for that? alright, let's go. [singing]

>> thank you thank you thank you. i'm rodney earl jackson, jr., artistic director of the theater company. >> anthony jackson. >> amen, amen, amen. we got one more for you because our wonderful may loves this song but dedicated to all

the beautiful black ladies in here. especially looking at dr. cheryl davis and looking at my beautiful mother. alright. alright. i'm going to take the glasses off for this. get into the motown spirit. [singing i got sunshine by the temptations]

you all know this next part. come on london, i need ya. [singing continued]

>> thank you so much. happy juneteenth! >> hello everyone. my name is nate the soul singer and i'm going to come to you about r & b music. i'm a r&b artist myself. i had to do studying and get history. r & b music was born in the 40. lewis jordan is one of the first r &

b artist with is you is or is you isn't my baby. since we had so much old school i decided to do more in my era which i think you'll all enjoy. r & b music has done a lot of things. talks about love. talks about heart break. money. having it, wanting it, needing it. my job is to get you all out of you seats today. so, we can party to this r & b music. come on! and of course if you know any of these songs, please sing with me.

[singing how will i know by whitney houston]

thank y'all. [applause] and there were groups by the

fugees. [singing killing me softly by the fugees]

>> thank you all. thank you all. while you are on your feet i got one. you all ready? one, two, three! one more time, you all ready? !

[singing outstanding by the gap band]

>> i want to thank you all again. happy juneteenth! keep dancing. keep loving and keep growing. [piano playing] how you all feeling out there

san francisco? >> alright. give it up for -my name is ryan nicole representing hip hop for you all and before we get into it, i want to give history. hiphop started as a protest. it didn't start as a party. we know hip hop music more blinging flashy and ratchet but that isn't how we are going to do it today. is that okay with you all? we are going to start with the word because the word is where hip hop started. it started as spoken word

first. do you know we are the center black people are the center. another word for the center is the nexus. right? we make this whole thing go down. we make this whole thing happen, so juneteenth is about freedom and releashing the shackles but first freedom in your mind. we are the nexus, meaning the freshest, meaning the center of attention, the essence, the light source, indandescence, the shunshine, bright florescent, caept reject it. better if you accept this. elevating position (indiscernible) people stay connected, i am what i am, (indiscernible)

[singing] let's get free. come on. first time being free. we got to get free in the

mind. [singing]

[applause] >> thank you. so, hip hop. protest music. hip hop also talks about love. we going to do some things we don't normally hear on the radio. we are going to do love stuff. i'll do the last song and get out your ways because we have more performances coming up. my name is ryan nicole. this is love song. a little sweet. it ain't but bumping and grinding, even though i'm not mad at that, but i feel you've been inundated with that. can

you two step with me now? i'm grown y'all. i can't be bumping and grinding and twurking and all that. my knews hurt. got arthritis. [singing] erking and

all that. my knees hurt. got arthritis. [singing] [applause] >> lord have mercy. give it one more time for ryan nicole! give it up one more

time for the san francisco bay area theater company and one last time when a sister tears up a stage like that you have to get her name right, nate, the soul singer. we would like to also recognize mr. reverend brown. give it up. from the baptist church. you having a good time? you enjoying yourselves? why not because it is evolution of our music so of course you having a good time. i'm about to bring up a sister one more time to make sure she has announcements. start clapping right now had, give it up for ms. felicia jones one more time! [applause]

>> yes! the evolution of our music. if you enjoyed yourself, one more time, stand up with your flags in your hand and raise them to the sky like you just don't care. i mean, i'm sitting over there and i'm just like, wow! if director asked me next year to do this again, it is like wow, what am i going to do, because this has been fabulous. this has been fabulous and can i'm so glad you enjoyed yourselves. we are going to close out with the caribbean vibration. the caribbean vibrations are in the house. uh-huh! they going to show you what they working with. yes! i love them, because my cousin, my first cousin, my second cousin have all danced with this

group for over 30 years, and so, she has been asking to come into city hall and i was like, okay. evolution of music, i got to close this out with a bang. i got to close it out, girl. here we are. shawn, you going to introduce them? thank you all so much for coming and again, i'm so happy you guys enjoyed yourselves and our house! and our house! and our house! and we have to be comfortable and coming into our house by the name of city hall. [applause] >> give it up one more time for ms. felicia jones. i'm go to read this off the bio so wasn't like i wasn't doing my homework but we want to bring them up correct. so, caribbean vibrations launched in

2010. you can start clapping right now. by founder, designer, dance choreographer trisha bell fast williams a native of-not only know for the vibrations and vibrant and beautiful costumes but the ultimate and authentic carnival experience in northern california representing all caribbean islands. steadily growing and evolving into a powerhouse mass band and focused on our masqueraders. establish a new standard and serving becoming the first all inclusive caribbean carnival group. i don't think you heard me, established as a new standard. becoming the first all inclusive caribbean carnival group in california.

caribbean vibration mission is deliver the masquerade with amazing costume, exceptional service and teaching of cultural caribbean dance. ladies and gentlemen, give it up for caribbean vibrations! [applause] >> caribbean vibrations! >> caribbean vibrations! [music]

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community.

>> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the

grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility

to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco

public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do,

and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people. >> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the

class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible)

students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and

hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >> (indiscernible) >> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said, they can happen in any city park (indiscernible)

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the

tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the

tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always

welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. >> (indiscernible) i just know it. excuse me boys, but does anybody have sun block to block this skin from

the sun? >> yes. that's right, i need to get my (indiscernible) >> many of us last summer (indiscernible) reapplying sun screen is like getting the second dose of mpox vaccine. >> wait, two doses- (indiscernible) >> isn't it too late to get my second dose? >> girl, it is like sun screen, never too late to put more sun screen on. >> that's right, i need to get my second dose of mpox vaccine before the summer starts. >> let's (indiscernible) 21201 to find the closest location to get the vaccine or go to sf.gov/mpox. >> thank you for the information (indiscernible) >> excuse me boys, do you mind checking please? >> sure.

>> that doesn't look like a sun burn, you might want to getd it checked out. >> what do you mean clecked out? >> checked out. i was told if i got my second m pox vaccine i would have less severe symptoms. (indiscernible) >> maybe i schedule the second dose just to be safe from mpox. >> most vackeens offer you a level of protections, just like sun block. sometimes you need to reapply for more protection. the m pox vaccine is based on two shots several weeks apart to provide the strongest level of protection. visit sf.gov/mpox to get yours. >> thank you boys for that reminder! make sure your are fully vaccinated for m pox this summer. text summer vibes to 21201, to get the san francisco music hall of fame is

a living breathing world that's all encompassing about music. [music playing] it tries to do everything to create a music theme. music themes don't really exist anymore. it is $7, the tour is two floors, (inaudible) so, each one of these frames that you see here, you can-you are and look into the story of that act, band, entertainment and their contributions to music. affordability

is what we are all about. creative support. we are dedicated to the working musician. we are also dedicated to breaking some big big acts. we like to make the stories around here. ultimately legends. >> it is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway

to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on estate planning and why it's important. >> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a

will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up. >> (indiscernible) important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a (indiscernible) >> why are estate

plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. and, >> i was excitesed to see the turn out from the western addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family.

>> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of building wealth in san francisco from one generation to the next. to learn more about this program e-mail inquiries at har

>> good afternoon. my name is (indiscernible) i'm the ce o. of the mission economic development agency. we are the codevelopers and owners of this beautiful beautiful building. [applause] thank you to all of you for gathering for this great occasion to celebrate the grand opening of casa de (indiscernible) 681 florida. [applause] this project is yet another win for affordable housing in the mission district and the city of san francisco. it is the result