President Biden signed legislation creating Juneteenth a holiday during a ceremony at the White House. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information President Biden signed a bill yesterday establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. While the legislation was passed by the House and Senate with unusual speed this week and overwhelming support from both chambers of congress, […]
Wednesday the House passed a bill that will make June 19th, AKA Juneteenth, a federal holiday. Now, the legislation will be sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. CNN reports, the bill passed through House 415-14, after the Senate unanimously passed the legislation Tuesday. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information “It’s not often when you can stand […]
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Back in 1865 on June 19th, the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Even though this was two and […]
Every year on June 19, the world takes a second to remember the legal abolition of slavery in Texas on this day in 1865. The move allowed an estimated 250,000 enslaved people to be freed who weren’t initially included in the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which freed all enslaved people in the […]
