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Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with President Biden at her side, at an event marking the passage of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act at the White House on June 17, 2021.
Independence Day is the quintessential all-American holiday, but those annual Fourth of July celebrations don't hold the same significance for all Americans. That's where Juneteenth comes in. The ...
At the the signing of the 2021 Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Biden called the occasion a "day of profound weight and profound power." "Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of ...
Independence Day: 1870 (unpaid holiday for federal employees) 1938 (federal holiday) Celebrates the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence from British rule. Parades, picnics, and cookouts are held during the day and fireworks are set off at night. On the day before this holiday, the stock market trading session ends three hours early.
As Juneteenth becomes more widely recognized, many people are realizing it's more than just a midweek break from work.. Known by many names, including Black Independence Day, Freedom Day and its ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Juneteenth commemorates the day -- June 19, 1865 -- when federal soldiers arrived in Galveston to take control of Texas and ensure the slaves were freed per the Emancipation Proclamation ...