Colorado
Juneteenth becomes an official holiday in Colorado
DENVER (KDVR) — Juneteenth will now be acknowledged in Colorado because the eleventh official state vacation after Gov. Jared Polis signed a brand new invoice Monday.
The laws was launched in Colorado after Juneteenth was acknowledged as a nationwide vacation final yr.
Juneteenth acknowledges the arrival of Union troopers in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to free the slaves that have been nonetheless being held there two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s the first new vacation for the nation since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was acknowledged in 1983.
Polis joined invoice sponsors for a signing Monday. You may watch it reside on FOX31 NOW within the participant above.