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Juneteenth 2024: Are banks, post offices and stock markets open? What to know
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoFederal offices: Juneteenth is a federal holiday. All nonessential government employees are off...
The Juneteenth Books That Historians, Activists And Others Want You To Read
HuffPost· 6 minutes agoOn June 17, 2021, the relentless work of many African American preservationists, social advocates...
Juneteenth advances as state holiday despite enduring opposition
Axios· 31 minutes agoJuneteenth, the once-obscure day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, has...
Michigan marks its 1st Juneteenth as an official state holiday
Michigan Advance via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoWednesday will not be the first official observance of Juneteenth in Michigan, but it will be the...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 22 hours agoPresident Joe Biden signed a bill on Thursday that officially established Juneteenth as the first new federal holiday in nearly four ...
Juneteenth 2024: What’s open and closed on Wednesday for the federal holiday
FOX 7 Austin· 5 days agoThe U.S. government was slow to embrace the occasion — it was only in 2021 that President Joe Biden...
Is there mail on Juneteenth? Post Office, UPS, FedEx open hours
Newsweek· 21 hours agoWednesday is Juneteenth, a federal holiday that began under the Biden administration and celebrates...
Senator Markey champions Juneteenth federal holiday and criticizes Supreme Court's conservative...
GBH News· 19 hours agoMassachusetts Senator Ed Markey was one of the lead sponsors of the bill that established Juneteenth...
Juneteenth: How the US holiday is being celebrated
BBC via AOL· 23 hours agoIn the lead-up to 19 June 2021, both chambers of the US Congress moved swiftly to pass the bill and - with the signature of President Biden, it became...
Top Dem Trolls Trump for Juneteenth: All the Cities You Diss are Black
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoOn Juneteenth, the federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in America, the head of the...