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Enslaved african americans over 150 years ago and thursday, presidentjoe biden signed the bill making the day official. koralie barrau reports. all right! applause for the first time in nearly a0 years, america officially has a new federal holiday. at an event at the white house on thursday, president biden signed into law a national commemoration ofjuneteenth, which memorialises when the last enslaved people in texas were freed. a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country, and continues to take. what i have long called america's original s...

America's original sin. among those at the signing with the president was 94—year—old 0pal lee, who has been referred to as the grandmother of juneteenth, for her efforts to urge legislators to make today a federal holiday. the bill is passed! how am i supposed to express the joy, how am i supposed to express all the years that we have worked, and for it to come to fruition, on the backs of so many people? juneteenth is a commemoration of when slavery ended in the united states. 0n19june, 1865 among the last enslaved people living in galveston, texas, received the news they were free. it w...