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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 17, 2021 19:49:42 GMT
The holiday will be the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983, and will become at least the eleventh federal holiday recognized by the US federal government. The US Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday that most federal employees will observe the holiday on Friday since Juneteenth falls on a Saturday this year.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Only a handful of states currently observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday.
www.cnn.com/2021/06/17/politics/biden-juneteenth-bill-signing/index.html
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 17, 2021 20:35:30 GMT
About damn time. This is the most important date in American history since the Civil War (at the very least).
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Post by Joaquim on Jun 18, 2021 1:48:47 GMT
My favorite response to this new holiday has been the ppl who are whining "YOU'RE PUTTING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF PRIDE MONTH!?"
They can co-exist lol
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 18, 2021 4:12:16 GMT
My favorite response to this new holiday has been the ppl who are whining "YOU'RE PUTTING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF PRIDE MONTH!?" They can co-exist lol well, not to mention Juneteenth came first.
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