U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

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)

U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (L) and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson, curators of the quilt project, place 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)

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