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Next: 19 Jun 2027

Juneteenth

Red food and red drink on the table, and two flags: red, white and blue with a star, and red, black and green.

Juneteenth Emancipation Day Celebration, June 19, 1900, Texas.
Photo: Mrs. Charles Stephenson (Grace Murray), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The colours of Juneteenth

Juneteenth marks 19 June 1865, when Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, and told the enslaved people there that they were free. Red runs through its food: strawberry soda and hibiscus tea, watermelon, red velvet cake, barbecue. Historians of food link this to West Africa, where red drinks made from kola nut and hibiscus were served on special occasions, and many people also read the red as the blood of the enslaved. The Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith in 1997, is red, white and blue like the national flag, with a white star for Texas inside a burst and an arc for a new horizon. Many also fly the red, black and green Pan-African flag.

#C8102ERed drinkHibiscus tea and strawberry soda; memory and resilience.
#002868Flag blueThe upper half of the Juneteenth flag.
#FFFFFFStar whiteThe star of Texas and the burst around it.
#007A33Pan-African greenThe red, black and green flag flown beside it.
#000000Pan-African blackThe people, on the Pan-African flag.

Values are fair approximations, not official shades.

Read about the colours

RedThe colour of Juneteenth food and drink.BlackPan-African flag.GreenPan-African flag.
About this page

Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Juneteenth" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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