Gary Hammond: “Now I can say I’ve played for my community and shared who I am with them. It’s a very good feeling to be able to do that. We have a long way to go as people. We’ve got to learn to love each other again. We’ve got to understand that our music is not only rap music. We have a tradition, an art form that was created here on this soil, that’s not European. We tend to take it for granted. Juneteenth is a time for us to get together and celebrate a wonderful woman who decided to extend herself and go above and beyond to bring community together. That was DeCharlene. It must go on.”