While Juneteenth celebrations took place over the weekend, some states like California do not recognize the federal holiday on Monday, as a state-paid holiday.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — "It really is a day of reflection," shares Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr."It's a day of looking at all that African Americans have gone through."
"We need to remember Juneteenth so that people understand why we need to continue to fight, to reverse this river of racism that has been permeating through the Black community from 1865 until now," says Jones-Sawyer. Currently, the assembly bill is in the Senate. It will need to move out of committee hearings in the next few days, then to the Senate floor, then the governor's hands to hopefully be approved and enacted next year.
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