This year, the event's theme honors 50 years of hip hop.
The event featured performances by State Property's Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Chris and Neef, Trina, and the legendary KRS-One."Look how beautiful this event is right now, look at this. You all should be recording it. Put this on YouTube. Let the people know this is what Philadelphia is about," said KRS-One.
"We really need this with what's going on in our community, we need to be able to come together and have a peaceful event, where everybody gets home safe," said Freeway. Councilmember Johnson's Annual Community Appreciation Day was done in partnership with Achieve College Education, the Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance, the Young Chances Foundation, the Ralph Brooks Community Basketball League, Point Breeze Youth Development League, and Momentum Christian Ministries.
Johnson started Community Appreciation Day in 2008 when he was a Pennsylvania state representative and has continued the tradition. The last Community Appreciation Day was in 2019. Community Day was not held in 2020 through 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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