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        <title><![CDATA[Twitter announces Juneteenth is official company holiday]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Tuesday that moving forward, the company will celebrate Juneteenth as an official corporate holiday.</p><p>The annual festival marks the date on June 19, 1865, when the abolition os slavery was announced in the state of Texas.</p><p>The social network will observe the holiday &#8220;forevermore,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1270448639622524928">Dorsey tweeted</a>, as will Square, the payment company at which he also serves as CEO.</p><p>Dorsey said that June 19 will be &#8220;a day for celebration, education, and connection&#8221; for the companies&#8217; employees, and <strong>included a link</strong> to the official Juneteenth website with history of the holiday.</p><p>Dorsey&#8217;s announcement&nbsp;arrives less than a week after he announced that he was <strong>donating $3 million to the charity run by Colin Kaepernick</strong>.</p><p>“$3mm to Colin @Kaepernick7’s @yourrightscamp to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization to elevate the next generation of change leaders,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1268306959419109376?s=20">Dorsey tweeted</a> last Wednesday.</p><p>Kaepernick — a former NFL quarterback — has been out of the league since beginning the movement of players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest social injustice. His kneeling became a favorite target of the president, who has&nbsp;<strong>repeatedly castigated</strong>&nbsp;the African-American QB as well as other NFL players who protested during the anthem, calling them unpatriotic.</p><p>Dorsey has led the charge in activism in big tech since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, which set off a week of protests across the nation.</p><p>Google chief Sunday Pichai last week announced that the search giant was donating $12 million to causes promoting racial equality, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously committed $10 million &#8220;to groups working on racial justice.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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