President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation making Juneteenth, June 19, the 11th federal paid holiday, after the bill was approved by both chambers of Congress. “Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and the promise of a brighter morning to come. This is a day of profound—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 have long called America’s original sin,” Biden said in remarks offered before signing the bill. “At the same time, I also remember the extraordinary capacity to heal and to hope and to emerge from the painful moments in a bitter, bitter version of ourselves, to make a better version of ourselves,” he added. The bill inserts “Juneteenth National Independence Day,” or June 19, onto the slate of federal …
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