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Reply Since June 19th falls on a Saturday this year, county employees will receive paid holiday leave on Friday, June 18. (Shutterstock) HOWARD COUNTY, MD — June 19, known as Juneteenth National Freedom Day, has been designated as an official Howard County holiday. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, marking the day when the news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached slaves in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after it was signed. "Juneteenth is a hi...

The Public Facilities and Spaces Commission will review the history surrounding the names of buildings, streets and statues in the county and decide if that public facility “participated in or encouraged the oppression of African Americans, Indigenous Americans and other individuals of color and contributing to the history of systemic racism,” according to Howard County Executive Calvin Ball.