Taylor Swift has opened up about the importance of Juneteenth in a series of posts on Twitter.The 30-year-old ME!
singer shared an article from The Root that included a video of the history of the holiday – when the Emancipation Proclamation was read to Texan slaves on June 19, 1865, after the South lost the U.S.
Civil War – and explained: “why it should be celebrated as a National holiday”.“Happy Juneteenth! I want to thank @TheRoot and @RhapsoDani for allowing me to post this video about the significance of today,” Taylor tweeted right after the stroke of midnight on June 19, 2020.The You Need To Calm Down star continued: “Personally, I’ve made the decision to give all of my employees June 19th off in honor of Freedom Day from now on, and.
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