U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION
(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (1st L), and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson (1st R), curators of the quilt project, watch as people make patches for a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus.
As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
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