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Homes of people all across america. and i know, you know, i sit here every night and i talk to you about these issues. about the insurrection, about racism, whatever, and sometimes i feel like i'm preaching. but if i don't say it, who will? and i'm not saying it just because i want to say it or i'm making things up. this is the truth about america. this is part of our history. so, i'm going to keep saying it, as long as i have this platform. and that's going to be for a while. i am a completely emancipated person. so, there ya go. an american. happy juneteenth, y'all. president biden calling...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ . president biden signing into law a bill making juneteenth a national holiday. even a small georgia town where the kkk was founded will be celebrating juneteenth this year. cnn's martin savidge has the story. ♪ >> reporter: 80-year-old gloria brown remembers when hundreds of

Were enslaved and that they were beaten, they were sold, they weren't able to accrue wealth. and they weren't able to go to school. they weren't able to go vote. you think that makes them feel good? so, the folks on the other side, stoop making it about you. and be curious, instead of judgmental. that's all. >> right. and look, conservatives say they are all about the principles that reformation is about. don't you want your kids given an avenue to dignity? and for them to see what abolitionists were about? and what it is to fight the good fight for the best of reasons. to celebrate your own b...

Fourth of july. and you actually think the two holidays complement each other. explain that. >> they do comp -- they complement one another. i don't know who they are but i know i have no intention. nobody i know has any intention of replacing the fourth of july. we celebrated juneteenth and the fourth of july, when i was growing up. the interesting thing about it, the order that gordon granger issued, general order number three, talks about the end of slavery. but then, he says that the former-enslaved people would occupy -- basically, be in a state of absolute equality with their former ensl...

Psalm tells us. weapon weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. juneteenth marks, both, the long, hard night of slavery, of subjugation, and a promise to come. this is a day of -- in my view -- profound weight and profound power. a day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll, that slavery took on the country, and continues to take. what i've long called america's original sin. >> also, momentous. vice president kamala harris, the first-black american to hold that office, witnessing and participating in the historic event. >> throughout history, juneteenth h...