By Malaika Jabali and Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 19, 2023
As the oldest holiday in our country that celebrates the end of slavery, Juneteenth originally started as a small festival amongst Texan Black communities. “Originally, the main focus of Juneteenth was education,” and nowadays many families gather together for massive cookouts.
Cookouts have a long tradition within Black culture “because it brought together enslaved people during important communal
