{"id":47662,"date":"2021-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/?guid=6f577f5e60aa67325c6eb705eb8369bf"},"modified":"2021-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"biden-to-sign-juneteenth-bill-creating-holiday-marking-u-s-slaverys-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/biden-to-sign-juneteenth-bill-creating-holiday-marking-u-s-slaverys-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to sign Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking U.S. slavery’s end"},"content":{"rendered":"
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will sign a bill into law on Thursday afternoon to make June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The bill, which was passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after a unanimous vote in the Senate, marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Jordan News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will sign a bill into law on Thursday afternoon to make June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans.The bill, which was passed overwhelmingly by t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n