ViewThe next federal holiday on the calendar is also the newest one: Juneteenth.
A combination of the words "June" and "nineteenth," this holiday commemorates the day when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they were free. This life-changing information arrived two months after the end of the...
How Juneteenth is celebrated across the country
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