Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmUPDATED with more companies: UTA said Friday that it will annually recognize and make a paid holiday of Juneteenth, commemorating the June 19, 1865 date when slavery ended in the U.S.
The date will be considered a paid holiday for all agency staff, and I expect more Hollywood agencies and studios will follow suit.Endeavor also said today it will make Juneteenth an official holiday for its U.S.
employees moving forward, effective this year.Union soldiers led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
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