Cuomo to Propose Making Juneteenth a NY State Holiday

[Gefn]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he would sign an executive order making Juneteenth a holiday for state employees this year, and would propose legislation to make it a state holiday starting next year.

New York joins a number of other states in moving to make the day a holiday; a number of prominent companies like the NFL and Nike have also said they would make this year's celebration this coming Friday a holiday.

Juneteenth, a portmanteau of June and nineteenth, is an annual celebration marking the end of the slavery in the United States. The holiday commemorates a specific date — June 19, 1865, the day many enslaved people in Texas learned they had been freed.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-to-propose-making-juneteenth-a-ny-state-holiday/2468851/

[Gefn]

If anyone reading this works for NY state, Friday is a paid holiday

[skeeter]

Suddenly Juneteenth is a ‘thing’.

BLM needs to thank DJT, if it weren’t for his campaign inadvertently scheduling a rally on that day June nineteenth would continue to be no more auspicious than the twenteenth.

And honorable mention to the leftist radical nerd who dug that barely known tidbit out of the archives. Not a bad bit of research for the typical historically ignorant millennial.