Juneteenth Observed by Growing Number of Companies

Amid calls for racial equality, companies including Nike, Target and Spotify are recognizing a holiday commemorating the end of slavery

Companies are observing Juneteenth as a holiday for the first time following nationwide protests calling for racial equality. Employees up and down the corporate ladder explain what they hope the day will achieve. Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhotoA small but growing number of employers have moved to observe Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., as a company holiday.

Plans to observe the June 19 holiday have moved swiftly across corporate America in the weeks following the killing of George Floyd, with businesses ranging from Nike Inc. and Twitter Inc. to law firm Nixon Peabody LLP and Spotify Technology SA, announcing employees would have a paid day off. Target Corp. is closing its Minneapolis headquarters Friday and offered time-and-a-half...

'Melania and I send our best wishes for a memorable celebration to all those commemorating Juneteenth.' Presidential Message on Juneteenth, 2019 Issued on: June 19, 2019

So mike is going to give Chinese manufcturers a day off?

We tend to address Symptoms and ignore Causes. Extremism. Propagandists & their Financiers who misguide innocents go free. On healthcare, spend on Hightech but very little on prevention. On Race, Beef up the police & Prisons, but ignore Ghettos, Drugs & Guns. Money?

Now that in itself is racist, just like renaming streets, building, products, and holidays to induce some type of pride and respect to a race that has become just as prejudice as the race they despise!!!

But the working poor are not working and if they are they can't afford to take a day off

Good marketing to cover for slave wages.

Trump rally controversy in Oklahoma on June 19th, provoked right decision to observe June19th as paid day off.

Yea. This is what they did when they gave us MLK. Whites scared - ok to give a holiday but forget real lasting change. POC aren’t falling for that BS this time.

How many minorities work at twitter with above average salaries? I bet i can count them on one hand. Libtards are hipocrits!

ugh. we are not Africa. its not the job of america to be an african nation. if you want to celeberate african culture move to africa. this is the United States of America. not the socialists african federation.

It’s is a day that should be celebrated by all Americans. Thanks to Abraham Lincoln and his fellow Republicans.

LOL

Hope there's enough room for everyone on the bandwagon.

the awakening of america?

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