Odunde returns to a Philly in crisis, on the same street but some 20 blocks west of where gunfire one week earlier killed three and injured 11.
After two years of pandemic disruption, Cecilia DeShields was thrilled to return Sunday to South Street to take part in a festival that has been a part of her life for more than four decades.
That celebratory attitude permeated the atmosphere Sunday, a week after violence erupted on the other end of South Street — withMany festival-goers Sunday didn’t bring up the shooting or the broader gun violence epidemic that has plagued the city. But some said it was important to demonstrate resilience and their commitment to participating in city life.
A festival regular, Francis-Thompson said she loves “the culture — representing everything we are as Black people.” She was impressed by the art on display, including paintings with African fabric woven into them. The vendor offerings were also a big draw for DeShields, a self-professed “T-shirt person” who snagged a “Black Wall Street” shirt Sunday afternoon. “You can go broke today,” she joked.“I told my wife, ‘I’m going full Odunde,’” said Thierry Fortune, 60, of Wynnefield, who was dressed in an outfit he had purchased several years earlier: a light tan tunic and pants made out of a canvas material, with several small embroidered zebras.
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