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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.
A Black advocate in Folsom is part of a statewide movement to urge California cities to designate Juneteenth an official public holiday in alignment with federal law and California’s designated ...
Juneteenth will be marked on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Unlike other federal holidays, such as Memorial Day and Labor Day, that are observed on a specific day of the week, Juneteenth is celebrated ...
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 ...
June 19 marks a crucial moment in our nation's history. On that date in 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people across the state that they were free.
On January 3, President Trump attended a rally at the El Rey Jesús mega church in Miami hosted by his “coalition of evangelicals.” [2] Ohio: Toledo: January 9 Arriving via Toledo Express Airport, President Trump held a Keep America Great Rally at the Huntington Center. [3] [4] Louisiana: New Orleans: January 13
It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a bill by President Joe Biden. Long a regional holiday in the South, Juneteenth rose in prominence across the country following ...
Though it has long been celebrated in Black communities, Juneteenth became a federal holiday when Biden signed a bill on June 17, 2021.. At the the signing of the 2021 Juneteenth National ...