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Juneteenth Challenges A Narrative About America’s History
On Thursday afternoon, President Biden will make Juneteenth a federal holiday, with most federal employees observing the day on Friday. He plans to sign the bill into law since the Senate and House cleared the way this week, voting in favor of commemorating the day that the last enslaved people in the U.S. found out they were free. June 19 goes by a number of names — Black Independence Day, Texas Emancipation Day — but to many Black Americans, it represents freedom. A portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texa

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