The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will be closed Monday in observance of the Juneteenth Holiday.
This is the first year that the University of Pittsburgh has marked Juneteenth as a holiday, which it is marking on Monday since June 19 is on a Sunday. President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth, considered the longest-running African American holiday, a federal holiday in 2021.
Juneteenth – short for “June Nineteenth” and often referred to as a Black Independence or Jubilee Day – commemorates the effective end of slavery in America.
