Congress Approves Juneteenth As Federal Holiday After House Vote

report out Monday, incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott finally has caught up to the 51-year-old Oscar winner in a poll for the Texas governor race after falling behind the actor in the spring.In next year’s run for governor, Abbott is now being favored by 39% of respondents in the state, whereas McConaughey is getting support from 38%, according to a poll from The Dallas Morning News and University of Texas at Tyler.

Sebastian Stan is in the midst of playing Tommy Lee in the upcoming “Pam & Tommy” miniseries, dramatizing the Motley Crue drummer’s short-but-turbulent marriage to Pamela Anderson (Lilly James).

While there are always a lot of news that comes up regarding Quentin Tarantino films, particularly when it comes to his dialogue and use of gore and violence, after the debut of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” there was a bit of a surprising controversy surrounding the filmmaker’s depiction of Bruce Lee.

Quentin Tarantino has defended his portrayal of Bruce Lee in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.“I can understand his daughter having a problem with it. It’s her fucking father.

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Three Texas men will serve between 12 and 22 years in prison after using Grindr to commit violent crimes against gay men.Michael Atkinson, 28, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, 21, and Daryl Henry, 24, pleaded guilty in 2019 to their part in the scheme.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Lance Gross has been cast in Lee Daniels and Karin Gist’s series “Our Kind of People,” a drama headed to Fox on Tuesday nights this fall. The “Sleepy Hollow” regular joins previously announced cast members Yaya DaCosta (“Chicago Med”), Morris Chestnut (“The Resident”), Joe Morton (“Scandal”) LeToya Luckett and newcomer Alana Bright.

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Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation, a law that was meant to free all slaves in America. However, Texas decided to ignore the new law and kept Black Americans enslaved for two more years.On Monday, June 19, 1965, General Gordon Granger and 2,000 troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that all slaves had been free for two years.

now a federal holiday, commemorates the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas — the last Southern holdout state — on June 19, 1865. Whether you want to learn more about historical events or acknowledge the day with other programming that’s thematically connected, there’s plenty to watch.

Nia DaCosta sees a direct line from Juneteenth to her new film “Candyman”.

Photos have been released from the White House’s East Room, where President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday.

passed the House on Wednesday and the Senate on Tuesday. Fourteen Republicans opposed the legislation in the House. «As we establish Juneteenth as our newest national holiday, let us be clear about what happened on June 19, 1865, the day we call Juneteenth,» Harris said, speaking of how the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, became free. «They learned that they were free.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicA year ago, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, Pharrell Williams braved air travel to head to his home state of Virginia and stand beside Governor Ralph Northam as he called for Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 (June 19) when the last slaves in Texas learned of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, to be declared a state holiday.The politician, a doctor by trade, had been in office less than two years and had already found himself marred in

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Juneteenth! This holiday -- named for and celebrated on June 19 -- commemorates the true ending of slavery in the United States. (You'll note, it is not Jan.

Ellise Shafer administratorThe Senate has unanimously passed a bill to establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday.Juneteenth, which takes place annually on June 19, marks the true end of slavery in the United States. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Army General Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom from slavery in the state of Texas, nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Networks and streamers are setting special programming to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in the last Southern holdout state, Texas, on June 19, 1865.