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Politics NY 06/18/2021

  • Writer: Milette Millington
    Milette Millington
  • Nov 19, 2021
  • 1 min read

Local and state pols lauded President Joe Biden in signing into law yesterday making June 19, known as Juneteenth, a federal holiday.


Juneteenth is the day when Black Texans were the last Blacks freed from the bondage of American slavery some two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.






 
 
 

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