Twitter, Square Set Juneteenth as Official Company Holidays, Jack Dorsey Says
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variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorJack Dorsey, CEO of both Twitter and Square, said the companies have set Juneteenth as official holidays in the U.S. “forevermore.”“A day for celebration, education, and connection,” Dorsey wrote in a Twitter thread Tuesday. “Countries and regions around the world have their own days to celebrate emancipation, and we will do the work to make those dates company holidays everywhere we are present.”Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 in many African-American communities, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
It dates back to June 19, 1865 — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation — when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over.
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