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America. where is your substantive action towards racial equity and progress? there is not an area of american life where there aren't legitimate questions to be asked and answer. that being said, there are also -- to return to what ms. opal lee said, there's something critical also to understand. mark twain said history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme or often rhymes. truthfully, one of the reasons that the enslaved in texas were kept in bondage for two and a half years beyond the point that any other enslaved individuals in what was then the united states is not simply that texas w...

Between them becomes that of employer and hired labor, unquote. that was general order number 3, read in galveston, texas, on june 19th, 1856, and with that, the last state to learn of abolition got the news. that general order is the reason for juneteenth celebrations across the country days after it was made a federal holiday. on thursday, president biden signed the federal designation into law. >> by making juneteenth a federal holiday, all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history and celebrate progress and grapple with the distance we've come. but the distance we...

A lawsuit. >> this case between the catholic social services agency and the city of philadelphia about placement of foster children, why did the court rule unanimously in favor of the agency and why was that ruling kind of more narrowly tailored, not more nationally in scope? >> it is more of a technicality and justice gorsuch pointed it out. really all they did was punt the ball. this issue will be back is all they really said because the philadelphia, and i used to work in dependency law in the city of philadelphia so i'm familiar with the players here, but because the city of philadelphia r...

>> joe biden on thursday in signing this into law called it -- he said he's only been president for five months or so, but it will be one of the greatest honors he will have had as president. we haven't had a new federal holiday since ronald reagan signed legislation to make martin luther king day a federal holiday. this is very meaningful. it's a big deal. it's a way for the entire country, for school children to learn about what juneteenth signifies, a very part of of what a sad, scary chapter of what brought this country to where we are today. as joe biden said, it's something we have to le...

So this is something that at this point would have probably happened with a republican or democratic president, but for biden and kamala harris who also signed it in her role as president of the senate, first black woman vice president, people felt the power of that legislation on thursday. >> with regard to how far we still have to go, that's one of the subtexts to the signing juneteenth into law as a federal holiday because with regards to voting rights, democrats and republicans don't seem too much closer on a compromise. former texas congressman beto o'rourke. >> i also hope we hear from t...