One Woman’s Decades-Long Fight To Make Juneteenth A U.S. Holiday
• “We can all finally celebrate. The whole country together,” says Opal Lee, 94, who has been working for years to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
Read More »
• “We can all finally celebrate. The whole country together,” says Opal Lee, 94, who has been working for years to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
Read More »
• To mark Juneteenth, NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States — is now a federal holiday.
Read More »
• The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.
Read More »
• Today marks the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth.
Read More »
