By Marlissa Collier Were y’all able to get your Great Value Juneteenth ice cream, plates and napkins before Walmart pulled them off the shelves? Yeah, me neither. It all happened so fast. We went from defending the legitimacy of Juneteenth as a holiday to deciding whether we were convinced that America had pure intentions when it made Juneteenth a national holiday. Juneteenth has been a Black American tradition since 1866, when formerly enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, celebrated a year of emancipation and freedom. It’s worth noting that the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1963, but the
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