Juneteenth was made a federal holiday by President Joe Biden on June 17, 2021. It is the 11th federal holiday in the US and the first new federal holiday in nearly 40 years after Martin Luther King Day was designated in 1983. Further reading: Juneteenth on Wikipedia Juneteenth: The His...
Celebrating emancipation was itself an act of continued resistance. And it wasn't until 2021 that Juneteenth became a federal holiday. 04:54 Today, Juneteenth holds profound significance as a celebration of the demise of slavery, the righteous pursuit of true freedom for all, and a continued...
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Every bank in the United States, whether brick-and-mortar or online, observes bank holidays. Currently, there are 11 bank holidays, which are designated by the Federal Reserve. The newest bank holiday is Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday in 2021. “Most banks will follow the same ...
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May Day — a legal holiday for workers in most countries — was born in Chicago. On May 1, 1886, workers shut down America’s greatest industry city, and other cities too, to demand the 8-hour workday. In 1894, the U.S. Congress intentionally created a Labor Day at an...
Sunday, June 15, 2025 Sunday, June 21, 2026 Sunday, June 20, 2027 Juneteenth Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated annually on June 19th to commemorate the end of slavery. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth," as it's a celebration of the anniversary of June...
General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony made it a criminal offense to publicly celebrate the holiday and declared that “whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way” was subject to a 5-shilling ...
This week, the stock market was closed Wednesday in observance of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. June 19 was first a stock market holiday in 2022, a relatively new development in observance of a day Americans have celebrated for a long time. That idea ...