The Dubai Government Human Resources Department (DGHR) has issued a circular announcing Friday, June 27, 2025, as the official public holiday for Dubai government entities, ...

Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, by former President Joe Biden. He was surrounded by civil rights activists, including Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the late Rep ...

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that recognizes the freedom of formerly enslaved Black people. The commemoration traditionally takes place on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 when Major Gen ...

The holiday was first listed on the calendar of public events in 1872 with the help of the government’s Freedmen’s Bureau agency for newly freed Black people. Later that year, a group of Black ...

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

In 2025, the holiday is on a Thursday. ... Yes, public schools will be closed for the federal holiday, even with the holiday landing during the last weeks of school in the Rochester region.