Another day off. Another excuse for the Post Office to not deliver my Wall Street Journal.

News Alert June 16, 7:32 p.m. EDT

Congress votes to make Juneteenth, or June 19, a federal holiday. The day commemorates the end of slavery in Texas in 1865. The House vote was the culmination of a long effort to commemorate Juneteenth, the day that enslaved Black people in Galveston, Tex., received news in 1865 that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed it. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent on Tuesday. President Biden is expected to sign it into law. Read more

An interesting fact: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, February 12, 1809. They both were strongly against slavery.

This blog has 31 posts about Abraham Lincoln at Abraham Lincoln.

This blog has 394 posts about Charles Darwin at Charles Darwin.