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Pharrell Williams on How He Got Virginia to Make Juneteenth an Official State Holiday (Video)

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in a press conference, after having spoken with state officials over the weekend about formally recognizing the holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, arrived at Galveston, Texas, and delivered the news that all enslaved people in U.S.

were free. It came two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.Also Read: Jimmy Kimmel Takes Summer Break From Hosting ABC Late Night Show“I called them and said, ‘Man, this is important for not only your own legacy, but the legacy of Virginia,” Williams continued. “If you would be willing to officiate this and make this a paid holiday, I will travel for the first time out of my house.

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