🎉Happy Juneteenth Day! ✊🏿 Did you stocked up on strawberry soda? 🍓 Red, which symbolizes perseverance🩸, is traditional for Juneteenth: strawberry soda, red velvet cake, strawberries, red beans and rice, and watermelon.“Watermelon and red soda water are the oldest traditional foods on Juneteenth,” said Dr. Ronald Myers, head of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. The June 19 announcement came more than two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. So technically, from the Union's perspective, the 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were already free—but none of them were aware of it, and no one was in a rush to inform them. #racismisreal Am I right @bonappetitmag? . Juneteenth celebrations waned during the era of Jim Crow laws until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, when the Poor People's March planned by Martin Luther King Jr. was purposely scheduled to coincide with the date. The march brought Juneteenth back to the forefront, and when march participants took the celebrations back to their home states, the holiday was reborn. Though most states now officially recognize Juneteenth, it's still not a bloody national holiday YET... cc: @gavinnewsom . . . #juneteenth #happyjuneteenth #strawberrypop #strawberrysoda #blm #blacklivesmatter #redsoda #civilrightsmovement #juneteenth #juneteenth2020 #EmancipationProclamation #redsoda #bigred #bigredsoda #juneteenthcelebration #juneteenthweekend #juneteenthfestival #juneteenth2020✊🏾 #bloodygirlgang (at Tulsa, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnhh8uBklY/?igshid=1prd9fo1j4771