{"id":2271919,"date":"2024-06-19T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taraji-p-henson-says-there-is-an-agenda-to-remove-juneteenth-holiday\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T18:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:25:44","slug":"taraji-p-henson-says-there-is-an-agenda-to-remove-juneteenth-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taraji-p-henson-says-there-is-an-agenda-to-remove-juneteenth-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Taraji P. Henson claims there&#8217;s a plan to eliminate the Juneteenth holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaraji-p-henson-says-there-is-an-agenda-to-remove-juneteenth-holiday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2271919&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actress Taraji \u2063P. Henson expressed concerns on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; regarding\u200b efforts to remove Juneteenth \u200cas a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-proclaims-christmas-eve-as-dr-anthony-s-fauci-day-in-washington-dc\/\" title=\"DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Proclaims Christmas Eve as \u201cDr. Anthony S. Fauci Day\u201d in Washington DC\">federal holiday<\/a>. Emphasizing the \u200dimportance of celebrating and safeguarding it, Henson stressed the need for collective action to\u200d maintain its \u200brecognition. Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, was established as a federal\u200d holiday by President Joe Biden in 2021. Henson,\u2064 noted for her roles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-reacts-to-death-of-ultra-conservative-james-caan\/\" title=\"Hollywood Reacts To Death Of \u2018Ultra-Conservative\u2019 James Caan\">major films<\/a> and TV series, also highlighted the urgency of the\u2064 issue,\u2063 indicating it as a\u200c significant stressor\u2062 and calling for humanity to actively preserve the holiday. This comes amidst broader discussions about her experiences and challenges in the acting industry, including considerations \u2064of quitting over issues like inadequate compensation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Actress Taraji P. Henson warned \u201cthere is an agenda\u201d to remove <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/juneteenth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Juneteenth<\/a> as a federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>holiday<\/a>, and that people need to \u201cshow up and fight for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The holiday, recognized annually on June 19, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/475\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>signed into law<\/a> by President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> in 2021. Henson, known for her roles in films such as <em>The Color Purple <\/em>and <em>Hidden Figures<\/em>, as well as the television series <em>Empire<\/em>, stressed the need for people to celebrate the established holiday to ensure \u201cwe can keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to say this, and I\u2019m going to say it once,\u201d Henson said on ABC\u2019s <em>The View<\/em>. \u201cWe better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-george-floyd-and-makhia-bryant\/\" title=\"CANDACE OWENS: The Media Is Lying To You About George Floyd And Ma\u2019Khia Bryant\">start celebrating<\/a> it, because there is an agenda that\u2019s trying to take it. So it means more now than it\u2019s ever meant before because we\u2019ve got to show up and fight for it so we can keep it. It\u2019s very serious what we\u2019re up against, it keeps me up at night. I\u2019m counting on humanity, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Henson, who warned last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2644451\/taraji-p-henson-may-quit-acting-over-low-pay-the-math-aint-mathing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>she could quit acting due to low pay<\/a>, added that part of the need to fight for Juneteenth is because \u201ca lot of people\u201d are not able to move outside the country, prompting <em>The View<\/em> co-host Whoopi Goldberg to object and say that leaving the country is \u201cgiving it over to somebody.\u201d Goldberg previously suggested in 2016 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/whoopi-goldberg-ill-move-if-donald-trump-is-elected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>she might move out of the United States<\/a> if then-presidential candidate Donald Trump became president.<\/p>\n<p>Former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/921044\/vivek-ramaswamy-says-juneteenth-is-a-useless-holiday-calls-to-make-election-day-a-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>he believed Juneteenth was made into a holiday \u201cunder political duress\u201d<\/a> in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death in 2020. He was also seen talking to an audience in Iowa when he suggested canceling Juneteenth \u201cor one of the other useless ones [holidays] we made up\u201d in exchange for making Election Day a federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump, who was president from 2017 through the start of 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSKCN26G325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>vowed in September 2020 to make Juneteenth a federal holiday<\/a>. He also promised to designate the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/19\/juneteenth-holiday-post-office-banks-closed-day-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>41% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-here-are-the-10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech\/\" title=\"Report: Here Are The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech\">private employers<\/a> are viewing Juneteenth as a paid holiday<\/a>, up slightly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/645006\/growing-number-of-businesses-recognizing-juneteenth-as-paid-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>the 39% that observed it last year<\/a>. Upon being designated as a holiday in 2021, just 9% of private employers viewed Juneteenth as such.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Taraji P. Henson cautioned that there&#8217;s an agenda to revoke Juneteenth as a federal holiday, urging action to preserve it. Recognized on June 19, it became a federal holiday in 2021 under President Joe Biden. Henson is famed for her roles in various films, including &#8220;The Color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2271920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24117609709043-scaled.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24117609709043-scaled.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}