In 2021, Juneteenth became the latest federal holiday in the US — the first to be approved since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. With Juneteenth now a national holiday, many public and ...

When and how did Juneteenth become a federal holiday? President Biden signed into law a resolution to make Juneteenth a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. But Texas had already beat the ...

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On Monday, June 19, 2025, you can officially wish your friends, family and colleagues a happy Juneteenth. The day, which was signed into law as a federal holiday by President Joe Biden in June ...

While Juneteenth has been unofficially celebrated for more than two centuries, Congress voted in 2021 to make it the 11th federal holiday. When President Joe Biden signed the bill, Juneteenth ...

Opal Lee, 97, spent years advocating to get Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019 ...

After more than 150 years of being celebrated in local and state communities, Juneteenth — also known as Black Independence Day — was declared a federal holiday in 2021, after President Joe ...

Las Vegas Valley residents began Juneteenth celebrations Saturday with festivals, music and education on the newest federal holiday. Juneteenth remembers June 19, 1865, when a Union general told ...