The United States is commemorating the end of slavery with a new federal holiday. President Joe Biden is set to sign legislation into law Thursday to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday. It’s the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.
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