This past Sunday, Philly held its annual Juneteenth parade in West Philly. 

We remembered June 19, 1865, the day the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. 

The drums led us. The music moved us. We celebrated a living, breathing continuation of our liberation. We celebrated, yes… but we did so knowing that freedom, once delayed, must never be taken for granted.