Celebrating Juneteenth Isn’t Just for Black People. How Companies and Other Employees Benefit, Too.

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June 19th is one of the newest holidays on the federal calendar. It commemorates Juneteenth, the day that the last enslaved people in Texas learned that they were free in 1865. Since it was officially declared a national holiday in 2021, most people don’t know much about it or why it’s a day worth celebrating. All that most people know about the holiday is that they get an extra day off between Memorial Day and the 4th of July, and that’s a win for their work-life balance (or work-life blend as I like to call it).

Although Black Americans have celebrated

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