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Celebrations across the state mark Juneteenth, proclaimed a federal holiday in 2021 and marking the date June 19, 1865 that Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that enslaved people in that state were officially free.
Jonathan Martin, national political correspondent for the New York Times and a political analyst for CNN, will discuss the newly released book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future," which he co-wrote with Times colleague Alexander Burns, 6 p.m. Monday at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock, under the auspices of the Central Arkansas Library System in partnership with the Political Animals Club.