TODAY IN HISTORY; THE U.S EMBASSY IN KENYA WILL BE CLOSED IN OBSERVANCE OF JUNETEENTH

The United States of America Embassy in Nairobi will be closed in observance of Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States.
The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
Early Juneteenth celebrations date back to 1866, at first involving church-centered community gatherings in Texas. They spread across the South among newly freed African-Americans and their descendants and became more commercialised in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival.
Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped from slavery in 1852 and settled in Coahuila, Mexico.
The day was recognised as a federal holiday in 2021, when the 117th U.S. Congress enacted and former President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.Participants in the Great Migration brought these celebrations to the rest of the country.