Last year, Biden signed a bill making June 19th, known as “Juneteenth,” a federal holiday, marking the end of legal enslavement of black people in the United States. The bill, which passed overwhelmingly in both the House of Representatives and Senate, marks the day in 1865 when a Union soldier told enslaved blacks in Texas […]

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