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Today is Juneteenth, meaning some banks and federal offices, such as the US Postal Service, will be closed.
According to the National Museum of African American History, Juneteenth was the day when 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free.
President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021 to make the day a federal holiday.
