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Now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday, states have been scrambling to figure out if they should add to paid…
On June 19, 1865, union troops informed slaves in Galveston that they were free. Today, Juneteenth marks a symbolic end…
Black members of Congress and singer Usher, among others, were at the White House as Biden signed Juneteenth into law…
Juneteenth, the day commemorating the symbolic end of slavery in the US is officially a paid federal holiday.
Over 150 years after the historic Emancipation Proclamation, Galveston, Texas has made Juneteenth an official city holiday.