New York City's mayor says Juneteenth will be become an official holiday for city workers and schoolchildren next year, and the city will form a new commission to examine its history of racial discrimination.
NEW YORK — Juneteenth will be an official holiday for city workers and schoolchildren next year, and New York City will form a new commission to examine its history of racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when the Union army brought word of the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln declared all slaves free in Confederate territory.
The formation of a commission on race will make New York the first major city in the United State to undertake a truth and conciliation process, de Blasio said. Part of its goal will be to identify any enduring discrimination in public housing, the criminal justice system and other institutions, he said.
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