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When Black Twitter Celebrated the First Juneteenth

Have you ever wondered what social media would have looked like on the first Juneteenth? Me either. Suggested Reading Kim Porter’s Best friend Speaks On Al B. Sure!’s Theories On Kim’s Death, Diddy Tramell Tillman Talks Sparring with Tom Cruise and Bringing That Severance Heat to Mission: Impossible Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait…

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Michael Harriot

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Have you ever wondered what social media would have looked like on the first Juneteenth?

Me either.

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But since we do this Social Studies thing every day, we’ve selected a few social media posts to imagine what this column would have looked like if Black Twitter existed on June 19, 1865, as the news broke that enslaved Africans had been freed.

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Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot

Happy Juneteenth!

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