Black Joy Parade and Festival
Broadway & Franklin
Oakland
February 23rd, 2025
For an hour this past Sunday, Broadway Avenue was filled with feet in place of tires and voices in place of car horns, and oh how the city sang.
From dancers to circus friends ....
... health care workers, cyclists, and sleepy babes ...
... to straight-up fabulous fits.
A little bit of everyone was represented.
Small stature did not mean bad visibility: these babes had the best seats around.
Performers and vendors with a lil something for varied tastes, some fun fits.
A long day! The Futurelics did not bring about the pictured breakdown, promise.
And, of course, no good Oakland event would be a real town time if there weren’t plenty of beauties of ogle.
A block lined with them, in fact, each more lovingly restored than the last.
So shiny! Such chrome!
It was, as ever, a pleasure to soak in the loving and truly joyful vibes this festival brings to the streets of our city, each smile and chord and blessing to its people.
