Juneteenth became a national holiday last year, a state holiday this year. No mail, no banks, no courts. No work?
On Sunday, June 19, Colorado will officially observe Juneteenth as both a federal and state holiday for the first time.
On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger and Union troops spread the news in Galveston, Texas, that enslaved Americans were free — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the. The event was later dubbed Juneteenth, and was celebrated unofficially for more than a century before it became an actual holiday.
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making June 19 the first federal holiday added to the country's lineup since President Ronald Reagan named Martin Luther King Jr. Day a holiday in 1983. Like MLK Day, Juneteenth is a paid federal holiday, and since June 19 falls on a Sunday this year, many government offices will be closed on Monday, June 20, when federal employees have the day off.
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