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If you didn’t already know, Juneteenth is officially a national holiday! In honor of the special mark in history, celebrities and politicians took a moment to honor this exciting new date! Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States. Union Major Gordon Granger announced the news to Black Americans in Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865 – two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

 

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