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What do you want people to reflect on during their time off for this brand new federal holiday? >> well i think it is very important for us to find an opportunity to be somber, to seek knowledge and to have a jubilee and a joyful time. but im so excited about is for those who have never heard of juneteenth now have a moment of reflection. we have seemingly had an opposition to be able to discuss slavery, weve talked all around it, even as we discuss hr4 the permission to study hr4, for some reas...

2007, 2008, when george bush signed it. why cant we fix that? why cant we pass a bill that talks about studying slavery and the disparities that exist today? why cant we talk about social equity? social justice? and racial equity? this administration has begun this? im so glad the president said that if he looks back over his legacy, this may be the greatest honor for him that hes ever had and that is establishing juneteenth as the 11th holiday and 38 years after mlk holiday. >> the image of vic...

You never leave the house without your luvs or your big dad energy. because...when you see a leaky situation you have luvs ready for that pro-level leak protection. luvs. parent like a pro. >> juneteenth marks the day in 1865 where union troops made their way all the way to galveston, texas. that is when the enslaved people living there learned that they were now free. mind you, this was more than two years after president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. so if you are a fed...

Signed a bill today making juneteenth a national holiday set to take effect immediately. during today signing ceremony biden made a point of highlighting a 94-year-old woman name opal lee who had spent decades of her life fighting to make juneteenth a national holiday. >> were blessed to mark the day in the presence of miss opal lee. i have the honor of meeting her in nevada more than a year ago, she told me she loved me and i believe that. i wanted to believe it. miss opal you are incredible, t...

Who did not survive this period, indicated that a nation divided cannot stand. juneteenth is a reckoning that we wanted to survive as a nation, and we freed the slaves. that is a beautiful story, even in the backdrop of the brutality. i hope as we go over and over again, we will have a juneteenth museum. it was out of houston texas. those are good stories and i worked on them for years. telling the story of juneteenth. look where we are today. an amazing vote in the senate, and an actual vote in...

12 years old a white mob torched her family home. but such hate never stopped her anymore than it stopped the majority of you are looking at on this podium. over the course of the decade she made it her mission to see that this day came, it was almost a singular mission. shes walked four miles and miles, literally and figuratively, to bring attention to juneteenth. to make thursday possible. i ask, once again, that we all stand and give her a warm welcome. [applause] >> afterwards congresswoman ...

Work to impress upon joe manchin the significance of the for the people act. but we cannot pass it if the filibuster, as we currently know it, is in place. the good news is as senator franken mentioned before, he did indicate that he would be open to some changes which is good, because not even his pal lisa murkowski who had signed his letter seems to be anywhere in the mix on this for the people act compromise. >> i just dont see how you get to 60 but maybe somebody out there has a magic map th...

17 years after it was signed into federal law, that all 50 states agree to observe mlk day. mississippi and alabama still combine holiday with the celebration of confederate general robert e. lee day, because mlk day was the last new holiday signed into law until today. president biden made juneteenth, celebrating the day when black people were finally liberated in texas the last action of the confederacy, a federal holiday. >> juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery and subjugation ...

In the instance of slavery, it was brutal. i hope that this will be a unified, a unifying day. it will begin tomorrow, no matter who you are, if someone looks up at you, your daughter, your son and they asked what is juneteenth? and you can say what it was, and you can say it is also a day freedom, and it can bring people together. thats what i hope juneteenth, year after year will be. >> that makes me think of this controversy though over critical race theory. ive been marinating a lot on why r...