Rhythm, dances, food, community gathering and music have been part of AfrAican American celebration culture long before the electronics provided entertainment.
Black people in America would hum and sing while preparing their feast, celebrating freedom on Juneteenth, freedom that many of the enslaved Africans in Texas didn't know they had after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1983.cIt took two years for the news of their freedom to reach African Americans in that state. The day was named Juneteenth.
There has been a school of thought among black scholars that local authorities in Texas had strong incentives to delay or suppress news of emancipation, as slaveholders wanted to continue profiting from their labor.
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