Juneteenth federal holiday could face pushback like Critical Race Theory Harvard historian says

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'One of the great thinks about this holiday is that it's tailor made for history because people have to know what happened, when it happened, why did it happen that way,' historian Annette Gordon-Reed says on Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.

 

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