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The Milwaukee music festival will host Juneteenth programming for the first time on opening night. The festival in 2025 also will run on July 4. Milwaukee's Summerfest announces 2025 dates, will ...
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.
Juneteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in June 1865, and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans. The name is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth [ 38 ] [ 39 ] and has been a federal holiday since 2021.
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 ...
Date Name First celebrated Remarks third Monday of January: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 1986: The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] June 19: Juneteenth National Independence Day
President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Juneteenth (aka Jubilee Day, Freedom Day or Emancipation Day) with a star-studded event.
Juneteenth National Independence Day: Wednesday, June 19. Independence Day: Thursday, July 4. Labor Day: Monday, September 2. Indigenous Peoples’ Day (also observed as Columbus Day): Monday ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.