Juneteenth’s first celebration in Utah creates conversation about commercialization concerns, Black history education at BYU
Biden made it a federal holiday for American people to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth marks the June 19, 1865, when U.S. troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and shared the news that all remaining slaves were free. The news came almost two-and-a-half years since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation after the Civil War ended.