June 19, or Juneteenth, has long been the day to mourn lives lost in the African slave trade and to celebrate the emancipation of the enslaved in the United States. Attempts to make it a federal holiday have long been thwarted — until, in a shocking rush, Congress passed the law and President Joe Biden signed it, […]
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