(NPR) Biden And Harris Will Speak At The Bill-Signing Ceremony To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday

Biden And Harris Will Speak At The Bill-Signing Ceremony To Make Juneteenth A Federal Holiday

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Juneteenth marks when enslaved people in Texas learned they had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation.



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