By Mike Cason
Juneteenth will again be a state holiday in Alabama this year, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday.
Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in America, will be recognized on Wednesday, June 19.
Ivey has declared Juneteenth a state holiday each year since 2021.
Alabama lawmakers have proposed bills to permanently add the date to the list of state holidays, but those have not passed.
Ivey also announced that Friday, Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving, would be a state holiday this year.
According to the University of Alabama, Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed.
