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What's closed on Juneteenth 2024? What to know ahead of the holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"Beginning in 2022, the Postal Service will recognize the Juneteenth National Independence Day as a ...
Is Juneteenth a holiday in Florida? What is closed on Juneteenth 2024?
Tallahassee Democrat· 1 hour agoBay, Texas, with 2,000 Union troops with a message for the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people...
Map shows states where Juneteenth is recognized as a public holiday
Newsweek· 6 hours agoJuneteenth National Independence Day was launched to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.—but...
This 97-Year-Old Activist Helped Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Biography via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoOpal Lee earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2022 for her part in creating the Juneteenth...
What Is Juneteenth? How Did It Become a US Holiday?
Bloomberg· 19 hours agoWhat Is Juneteenth? How Did It Become a US Holiday? Have a confidential tip for our reporters? Juneteenth is a celebration of Black history and freedom...
What's Juneteenth and what's open, closed? Here's what Savannah residents need to know
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoThe newest federal holiday falls during the middle of the week this year. Here's everything you need...
Opinion: We need to celebrate Juneteenth — together
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoSomewhat ironically, it was Cox who, in March 2022, signed the law making Juneteenth National Freedom Day a state holiday in Utah. The problem is, it’s...
What is Juneteenth? Here's why we celebrate the federal holiday in South Carolina
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter...
Juneteenth celebrations in metro Atlanta | 2024
Fox local via AOL· 6 days agoPresident Joe Biden signed a law declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images) ATLANTA - Juneteenth, also...
Do Michigan State University employees get Juneteenth off? Sort of
Gannett via AOL· 16 hours agoIn October 2022, former Wayne State University president M. Roy Wilson announced that employees would have the holiday off the following year. "I encourage ...