The New Jersey Law Center will be closed Friday, June 16 in observation of Juneteenth. It will reopen on Monday, June 19.
Earlier this month, in celebration of the holiday NJSBA’s Minorities in the Profession Section hosted our Juneteenth event on June 8 which commemorated the end of chattel slavery in the United States.
Over 80 people came to the New Jersey Law Center for our program which featured a panel discussion with notable Black leaders in the law on empowerment and why representation matters.
The panel was moderated by Cheyne R. Scott, a member of the MIPS Board of Directors. Speakers included U.S. District Court Judge Julien X. Neals, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton and Ron McCormick, a Bergen County assistant prosecutor and NJSBA Trustee.
Juneteenth commemorates the June 19, 1865, arrival of Union General Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas. The general informed the enslaved African Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended, nearly two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth became a New Jersey state holiday in 2020 and a federal holiday the following year.