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The historic Eastlake Park neighborhood in Phoenix held its annual Juneteenth celebration. Countless civil rights activists have graced Eastlake Park, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Martin Luther King Jr. The neighborhood is “so important to the civil rights history of Arizona," said Mayor Kate Gallego.
The Phoenix City Council unanimously approved a new paid city holiday at its Wednesday meeting. Juneteenth will become an annual holiday starting this year.Juneteenth recognizes June 19, 1865, the official end of slavery in the United States. That’s when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Black people of their freedom. It was two months after the