call it an election-year stunt.

Well, next Wednesday, June 19 is Juneteenth a day of knowledge in the end of slavery in the United States.

It is not a state holiday in Kentucky, but one key lawmaker says he will push again to make that happen.

State Representative George Brown Junior, a Democrat from Lexington, says he will introduce legislation next year, quote, this has been a federal holiday since 2021. and it is past time for the General Assembly to take similar action here.

Our caucus will once again to file legislation to make the goal a reality in 2025.

And beyond unquote.

Brown is chair of the Kentucky Black Legislative Caucus yesterday.

Governor Andy Beshear talked about his continued support for an official state holiday.

>> Each year since taking office of Sidon Juneteenth Proclamation.

Michael Brown read it in the first year.

In each of them.

We proclaim Juneteenth as National Freedom Day in the Commonwealth.

And each year we urge the General Assembly to pass legislation officially making Juneteenth a state holiday legislators from both the House and the Senate have proposed the legislation, including Little Senator Gerald Neal and so many others.

But each year.

The super majority refused to Martin Luther King Junior once said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

After years of inaction, I decided we can no longer wait to do what was right some 2 weeks ago signed an executive order officially making Juneteenth and Executive branch holiday in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

We join 20 other states that have done so.

>> June 19th is significant because on June 19th 18 65 Union forces liberated the last enslaved people in the U.S. in