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House Majority Whip James Clyburn of walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Among other speakers: Stacey Abrams, whose voter registration and education efforts helped flip Georgia blue for Biden; Representative Cedric Richmond; Congressional Black Caucus Chair Representative Joyce Beatty; Senator Cory Booker; and the incoming senator from Georgia, Reverend Raphael Warnock. The event will pay homage to the legacy of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, as well as Black sororities and fraternities. Harris is the first HBCU graduate and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member to be vice president. The sorority’s international president and CEO, Dr Glenda Glover, and Howard University President Dr Wayne Frederick will deliver remarks.
Jan 18, 2021
As part of a national memorial to remember and honor those Americans who have died of COVID-19, the Oregon Convention Center will be lighted in red, white, and blue Tuesday, January 19.
Multnomah County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson requested the lighting as part of President-elect Joe Biden’s effort to recognize the roughly 400,000 Americans who have now died of COVID. The number of dead will soon surpass the number of Americans killed in all of World War II, making the COVID-19 epidemic the third most deadly tragedy in American history, after the 1918 Influenza outbreak and the U.S. Civil War.
Balboa Park lights turning on to honor Americans who have died from COVID-19
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and last updated 2021-01-19 12:25:28-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â The buildings at Balboa Park will light up Tuesday as the City of San Diego remembers those across the U.S. who have died from the coronavirus.
Starting at 2:30 p.m., city officials said amber lights will be turned on at the California Tower, San Diego Museum of Art, and the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
The Museum of Us, House of Hospitality, Mingei International Museum, Casa de Balboa, and other locations at Balboa Park will showcase red, white, and blue lights.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will kick off inaugural events in Washington, D.C., with a lighting ceremony to honor the nearly 400,000 Americans killed by the coronavirus.
Belvidere churches to join in nationwide bell-ringing for those lost to COVID
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Warren County is joining in honoring the lives lost to COVID-19 as part of a national moment of unity and remembrance Tuesday organized by President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration committee.
At 5:30 p.m., bells are set to toll in the churches around the county’s Garret D. Wall Park in Belvidere, county officials announced.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee lists more ways to take part in the remembrance at bideninaugural.org/covidmemorial, and says a ceremony will be carried on social media for the first-ever lighting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in honor of those who have died.