Essence Magazine:
By Malaika Jabali ·Updated June 19, 2022
State governments around the country began adopting Juneteenth as a holiday shortly after the high-profile police killing of George Floyd, in May 2020. And while Congress is prone to move at a glacial pace, it too acted swiftly to pass a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
America could use a day of observance, to acknowledge the toil of our ancestors and the day some
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