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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Celebrations include picnics, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, blues festivals, and Miss Juneteenth contests. Red food and drinks are traditional during the celebrations, including red velvet cake and strawberry soda, with red meant to represent resilience and joy.
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Historical reenactments? Sincere question, how would that go? My limited knowledge of Juneteenth is that three years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a group travelled to Texas and told the people that slavery was outlawed three years earlier. " Sorry for the delay, traffic and all."