New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration

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New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration

STORY: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration DATELINE: June 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:35 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the festival 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project STORYLINE: A free music festival marking Juneteenth was held Sunday in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where African Americans commemorated the end of slavery in the United States and honored the lives lost to COVID-19 pandemic. A traditional altar was set up at the central meadow, featuring quilts contributed by people in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. The markings and patterns in quilts were used as a way to message and learn where to go when Black people escaped from slavery hundreds of years ago. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project "It is definitely very tightly wov

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