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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? Suggested Reading Here’s More MAGA Leaders Loudly Opposing Trump ‘RHOA’ Star Kandi Burruss, Todd Tucker Finally Reach Conclusion in Messy Divorce You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Keke Palmer at SXSW Panel Video will return here when scrolled back into…

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

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Me either.

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
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot
Image: The Root/G-O Michael Harriot

Happy Juneteenth!

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