President Biden is set to sign a bill today establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
The 3:30 p.m. ET signing event at the White House comes two days before Juneteenth itself, which falls on June 19 each year. Biden and Vice PresidentFederal workers will observe Juneteenth on Friday this year because June 19 falls on a Saturday. The New York Stock Exchange will not close for Juneteenth this year, but will evaluate a closing markets for the holiday in 2022, according to the exchange.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday and the first new one created sinceJuneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans. On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver
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