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When is Juneteenth 2025? Juneteenth falls on Thursday, June 19. A datebook opened to the week of January 20, 2025. The day is both the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and Inauguration Day.
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
"Juneteenth" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American comedy-drama television series Atlanta. The episode was written by Stefani Robinson , and directed by Janicza Bravo . It was first broadcast on FX in the United States on October 25, 2016.
Juneteenth (also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day or Emancipation Day) is a day to honor and celebrate liberation. Today, the holiday celebrates Black culture, history and life, bringing people ...
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM. ... Khalid Kamau, Mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, raises his fist while participating in the Juneteenth Atlanta Black History parade on June 18, 2022, in Atlanta. ...
2025 date: January 20 ... Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) ... was started by former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford and Atlanta Congressman ...
The Juneteenth flag was designed in 1997 by activist Ben Haith (also known as "Boston Ben"). [1] Haith displayed the first version of the Juneteenth flag in June 1997 at Boston's John Eliot Square District. It was described by Patricia Smith of the Boston Globe as, "A banner adorned with sunbursts and flaming candles". [2]
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 ...