Juneteenth” celebrates day Texas slaves heard President Lincoln had freed all U.S. slaves

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June 19 is now a legal holiday in Wisconsin. But public employees shouldn’t plan on a paid day off, unless they take it as a vacation day. Chuck Quirmbach reports…

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