“Congress on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday, elevating the day marking the end of slavery in Texas to a national commemoration of emancipation amid a larger reckoning about America’s turbulent history with racism,” the Washington Post reports.

“It is the first new federal holiday created by Congress since 1983, when lawmakers voted to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day after a 15-year fight to commemorate the assassinated civil rights leader.”

The Hill: 14 Republicans vote against making Juneteenth a federal holiday.

“So, the critical race theory — and I can’t think of the author right off the top of my head who wrote about this — really had a theory that, at the high level, is one that really starts creating those divisions between us about defining who we are based on race and that sort of thing and really not about how to bring us together as Americans rather than — and dividing us and also having a lot of very socialist-type ideas about how that would be implemented in our state.”

— Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R), when asked to define “critical race theory” on his monthly call-in radio show.

“A federal judge halted payments for a loan forgiveness program that provides relief to agricultural producers of color,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty “alleged that the Biden administration used an unconstitutional program in an effort to end systemic racism and should make the relief available to white farmers, too.”

Jennifer Chudy and Hakeem Jefferson: “The deterioration in support (for Black Lives Matter) is noteworthy because we do not merely observe a return to pre-Floyd opinion levels.”

“Rather, since last summer, Republicans and white people have actually become less supportive of Black Lives Matter than they were before the death of George Floyd — a trend that seems unlikely to reverse anytime soon.”

NBC News: “The costs to taxpayers from a racial profiling lawsuit stemming from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols in metro Phoenix a decade ago are expected to reach $202 million by summer 2022.”