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Here is a sampling of Juneteenth festivities happening in L.A. County this weekend to commemorate "Freedom Day" or "Emancipation Day."
The two votes taken by the L.A. City Council on Friday deal with the minutiae of holiday rules for an employer with tens of thousands of employees. L.A. formally makes Juneteenth a holiday for all ...
"U.S. courts will be closed June 19 for the Juneteenth holiday," read the U.S. Court's Juneteenth post on X. "E-filing will be available. "E-filing will be available. Contact your local federal ...
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[102] [103] Cook County, Illinois, adopted an ordinance to make Juneteenth a paid county holiday. [104] The City and County of Honolulu recognizes it as an "annual day of honor and reflection", [ 105 ] and Portland, Oregon (as a day of remembrance and action and a paid holiday for city employees).
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states .
1927 Los Angeles Times map of Leimert Park and surrounding area, including (4) proposed connection of Santa Barbara Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) with Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) via a new 133-foot-wide Leimert Boulevard and (7) paving and widening of Angeles Mesa Drive with two roadways from Vernon south to 79th Street