Pharrell Williams is hoping to make a change. The 47-year-old singer attended a news conference with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, where the politician announced his plans to make Juneteenth a state holiday.
Juneteenth, which is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, is celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when news finally reached African-Americans in Texas that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves living in Confederate states two years earlier.
When Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to bring the news that slavery had been abolished, former slaves celebrated. At the conference on Tuesday, Williams, a Virginia Beach native, spoke in support of the motion, which.
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