{"id":89812,"date":"2020-10-15T02:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/juneteenth-to-be-recognized-as-official-ny-holiday-starting-next-year\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T02:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:29:24","slug":"juneteenth-to-be-recognized-as-official-ny-holiday-starting-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/juneteenth-to-be-recognized-as-official-ny-holiday-starting-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#Juneteenth to be recognized as official NY holiday starting next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Juneteenth to be recognized as official NY holiday starting next year<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/cuomo-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        ALBANY \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday signed legislation making Juneteenth \u2014 the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States \u2014 a recognized holiday in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly proud to sign into law this legislation declaring\u00a0Juneteenth\u00a0an official holiday in New York State, a day which commemorates the end to slavery in the United States,\u201d Cuomo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new public holiday will serve as a day to recognize the achievements of the Black community, while also providing an important opportunity for self-reflection on the systemic injustices that our society still faces today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The holiday falls on June\u00a019 and all state employees will get the day off starting next year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0commemorates June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, when <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> of the liberation was delivered in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo issued an executive order earlier this summer following news of the May 25 Minneapolis\u00a0police killing of George Floyd and ensuing protests across the nation and the world against police brutality and systemic racism.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/juneteenth-to-be-recognized-as-official-ny-holiday-starting-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Juneteenth to be recognized as official NY holiday starting next year&#8221; ALBANY \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday signed legislation making Juneteenth \u2014 the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States \u2014 a recognized holiday in New York State. \u201cI am incredibly proud to sign into law this legislation declaring\u00a0Juneteenth\u00a0an official holiday in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/cuomo-1-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75696,70430,4943,75894,1621],"class_list":["post-89812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-14-20","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-george-floyd","tag-juneteenth","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}