Juneteenth, which is a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America, has been approved to be a federal holiday. This, as a 415-14 bill in Congress approved a bill to make it a holiday.
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That means the United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.
The House of Representatives voted 415-14, in favour of the bill on Wednesday, to make Juneteenth, or June 19th, the country’s 12th federal holiday.
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk, and it is widely expected that he will sign it into law.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.
It’s the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.
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