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Juneteenth: A New Federal Holiday
Black Americans have been pushing for Juneteenth to be celebrated as a national holiday, and today, it was officially signed into law. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed speaks with Walter Isaacson about what the holiday and her own story. @agordonreed
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