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I'm so grateful, grateful that my team and everybody came out to support the george floyd movement. >> we'll keep listening in to that. that is the unveiling of the george floyd memorial in brooklyn. a relevance piece of extra history on this important day, the first time the 11th federal holiday in the united states, the first time we are celebrating juneteenth as a nation. and of course george floyd part of the new civil rights movement. i was a little shocked that there were a number of your colleagues in the house of representatives who couldn't even vote symbolically to mark juneteenth. a...

That history. this is a great country. our problem is we seem to refuse to give that greatness -- making it accessible and affordable for everybody in the country. and you know, it is an interesting thing about juneteenth. i talk to people about that all the time as a failure to communicate. >> yeah. >> it was two years down in texas before anybody communicated and told them that they were free. now, that communication, that failure to communicate, may have been intentional. i'm sure it was. but that is what is going on today. we're failing to communicate. and filibusters keep you from communi...

Juneteenth a day after president biden signed the bill, making juneteenth an official holiday recognizing it as a federal holiday. >> nations don't ignore their most painful moments. they don't ignore the moments of the past, they embrace them. the emancipation of enslaved black americans did not marked the end of equality it only marked the beginning. >> i'm so glad to see you in person. juneteeth, for many people, they didn't know about it. >> it was the date that the last slaves were freed in texas. federal soldiers came in and told the slave holders they have to listen to the emancipation

America has a new national holiday. president biden signing a law today establishing june 19th as juneteenth national independence day, commemorating the end of slavery in the u.s. the president saying it will go down as one of his greatest honors. >> by making juneteenth a federal holiday all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history and celebrate progress. >> juneteenth's roots go back to galveston, texas where our morgan radford spoke to those commemorating its history. >> reporter: this year reginald adams wanted to do something special for juneteenth. >> it's abs...

Caucus, members of the united states senate who passed this bill unanimously. and all of whom collectively were responsible for delivering this bill to the president's desk, and i thank you all. we thank you all, the nation thanks you all. when we establish a national holiday, it makes an important statement. national holidays are something important. these are days when we as a nation have decided to stop and take stock, and often to acknowledge our history. so as we establish juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let us be clear about what happened on june 19th, 1865, the day we