Thank you, man.” “Thank you.” “All right.” įollowing the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in the custody of the Minneapolis Police in May 2020, thousands of people around the United States poured onto the streets in protest.
And to emerge from those painful moments and a bitter, bitter version of ourselves. At the same time, I also remember the extraordinary capacity to heal and hope. What I’ve long called America’s original sin. A day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take. This is a day of profound, in my view, profound weight and profound power. These are days when we as a nation have decided to stop and take stock, and often to acknowledge our history.” “Juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery, of subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come. National holidays are something important.
When we establish a national holiday, it makes an important statement. “Throughout history, Juneteenth has been known by many names: Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day, Emancipation Day, and today, a national holiday. The measure was passed in the House and Senate with bipartisan support. Transcript Biden Signs Juneteenth Holiday Into Law On Thursday, President Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, a federal holiday. (The holiday was observed on June 18, as June 19 fell on a Saturday.) The law went into effect immediately, and the first federal Juneteenth holiday was celebrated the next day. Biden singled out Opal Lee, an activist who at the age of 89 walked from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., and called her “a grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.” On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the bill into law, making Juneteenth the 11th holiday recognized by the federal government. In the House, the measure passed by a vote of 415 to 14, with all of the opposition coming from Republicans, some of whom argued that calling the new holiday Juneteenth Independence Day, echoing July 4, would create confusion and force Americans to choose a celebration of freedom based on their race. In the wake of the nationwide protests against police brutality in 2020, the push for federal recognition of Juneteenth gained new momentum, and Congress quickly pushed through legislation in the summer of 2021.
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