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(CNN) - In commemoration of the day known in the United States as Juneteenth, companies have given employees paid vacations, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is pushing for it to be a paid state holiday and there seems to be more awareness of this date. than ever before.
Now, Google also joins the commemoration of the 155th anniversary of the Juneteenth, celebrated largely as the date of the end of slavery in the United States, with a video doodle.
With the first line of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Raise All Voices and Sing, "also known as the Black National Anthem, the video begins with General Order No. 3 - the order that Union General Gordon Granger read to a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. They notified them that they were no longer enslaved.
Over the course of 90 seconds, the video shows various scenes of black people both past and present, doing things like hanging out in a park, voting, and getting married.
Created in collaboration with artist Loveis Wise, music producer Elijah Jamal, and narrator LeVar Burton, the doodle seeks to educate and inform a swath of people who may not have been familiar with this aspect of black community life, Burton said. .
Juneteenth, a mix of the English words June and nineteenth (June 19), is the oldest known American celebration of the end of slavery.
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