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closure of food courts and children s playgrounds until june 29th and the restaurants, cafes and clubs will continue to operate under restricted hours. with little over a month to go until the summer olympics, just how ready is tokyo to host the games? the decisions still facing organizers as the clock ticks down to the opening ceremonies and later, americans celebrate the new juneteenth holiday with parades, go-go music and double dutch contests. you re watching cnn newsroom. stay with us.
but on this day, black achievement and black resilience. take a listen. that is what he this is about. us coming together. putting the culture on display but also infusing it in politics and getting our community more politically engaged and more polit politically motivated to participate in the political process. just like this black lives matter plaza. what does that really change for us? not much. you know, we still don t have justice around the world. still don t have justice around the country. at the same time, it s cool to know this is a space of kind of belonging. though, it takes much more than that. juneteenth is the same thing. what i love about it is juneteenth is something we can celebrate our freedom. something that we used to celebrate, being black. and something that we use to embrace ourselves and embrace our culture and that s why we have chosen to just have fun and choose joy no matter what. the go-go music in the background, really, originally, from here, wash
it s a weekend holiday here in the united states and around the country. people are marking the first national observance of juneteenth as a federal holiday. juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the u.s. and the day in 1865 when former slaves in galveston, texas, were finally told slaves in the u.s. were freed. president biden signed the bill into law on thursday. he gave the first pen to 94-year-old opal lee. the woman known as the grandmother of juneteenth. she helped lead the fight to make the day a federal holiday. juneteenth celebrations have a special meaning in washington, d.c. people turned ought for neighborhood cookouts, go-go music and double dutch jump rope competitions. suzanne malveaux is there. reporter: it s a juneteenth celebration in the nation s capitol, an official national holiday. this is the holiday and the
motivated to participate in the political process essentially. just like this, black lives matter plaza. what has that changed for us? not much. we don t have justice around the world. we still don t have justice around the country. at the same time, it is cool to know this is a space of belonging, though it takes much more than that. juneteenth is the same thing. what i love about it is that juneteenth, something we celebrate our feelings and something we use to celebrate to being black and something we use to embrace ourselves and our culture. we chose double dutch to just have fun and choose joy no matter what. reporter: as you can hear the go-go music in the background, really from here in washington, d.c., a celebration but also a message to many people i talked to to washington official washington, political washington that lawmakers must work harder from the community to change the laws and make sure indeed there