(This Friday is a federal holiday)...It is Juneteenth.

Celebrated on June 19th to commemorate the end of Slavery in the United States. On June 19th, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the Civil War. The first Juneteenth celebration was held in the 1890's. It became a federal holiday in 2021.