NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the league will observe Juneteenth next Friday, June 19, as a company-wide holiday, with NFL offices closing on that day
Friday in an internal memo to staff that the league will observe Juneteenth next Friday, June 19, as a company-wide holiday, with NFL offices closing on that day.... [+]
In 2018, the league announced it would issue fines if players knelt during the playing of the anthem to protest racial injustice, claiming that"protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic." On Thursday, the NFL announced it was committing $250 million over a 10-year period to a fund to combat systemic racism.
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