{"id":2260,"date":"2021-05-29T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:34:00","slug":"bu-to-observe-juneteenth-as-annual-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2021\/05\/29\/bu-to-observe-juneteenth-as-annual-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Declares Juneteenth an Official University Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU\u2019s decision to add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/what-is-juneteenth\/\">Juneteenth as an official holiday<\/a> is part of an ongoing effort to make BU \u201cthe diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that best embodies our values,\u201d President Robert A. Brown announced in a letter to the University. Juneteenth, long celebrated in the African American community, is traditionally observed on June 19, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in America\u2014in Texas, where the holiday began\u2014were told they were free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU\u2019s decision to add Juneteenth as an official holiday is part of an ongoing effort to make BU \u201cthe diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that best embodies our values,\u201d President Robert A. Brown announced in a letter to the University. Juneteenth, long celebrated in the African American community, is traditionally observed on June 19, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}