Celebrating Juneteenth – Finally a Federal Holiday!
At long last, the United States will finally recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983. The bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday was passed this week. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas — two months after the Confederacy...
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