Bezos urged Amazon employees to cancel all meetings on Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sent a memo to employees Tuesday urging them to cancel all meetings on Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.
Other tech companies, including Twitter, Square, Google and Facebook, have also chosen to commemorate Juneteenth. In a memo sent to employees on Tuesday, Bezos encouraged Amazon employees to cancel all meetings on Friday to honor Juneteenth, which celebrates the emancipation of Black people from slavery in the U.S. On that date in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation to African-Americans.
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