nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Juneteenth Is Now A Federal Holiday||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||June 19 is a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.