The Raiders will join several other professional sports teams and be closed for business on Friday, June 19, to observe Juneteenth, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Many teams and corporations have decided in recent weeks to observe the holiday as part of the racial justice movement that began in the country after George Floyd, a Black man who died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.
Juneteenth — also known as Freedom Day — is a celebration held annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery.