Pharrell is happy to see Juneteenth has become a Virginia state holiday. June 19, commonly known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Cel-Liberation Day, marks the date slavery was abolished in 1865.
On Thursday, the singer appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and talked about his home state making the day a holiday after he called up Governor Ralph Northam on the phone. “I just think it’s high time that if we’re going to think about what independence and what freedom really look like, ours was never really acknowledged,” he said. “We have 47 states that observe it, but man, it’s not a paid holiday.
We deserve a paid holiday.” He added, “This is for not only me, this is for my ancestors that absolutely came through on the hull of a ship
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