{"id":148940,"date":"2020-06-20T03:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/20\/juneteenth-rallies-and-celebrations-across-america-commemorate-end-of-slavery-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-20T03:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:56:26","slug":"juneteenth-rallies-and-celebrations-across-america-commemorate-end-of-slavery-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148940","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth: rallies and celebrations across America commemorate end of slavery \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands celebrate Juneteenth with anti-racism marchesFauci and Birx both raised concerns about Tulsa eventPresident warns \u2018agitators, looters or lowlifes\u2019 will be treated more harshly than they have been in liberal-run citiesOfficer involved in shooting of Breonna Taylor to be firedSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.56am BST Here are a few more images and videos from around the country. Los Angeles: It&#8217;s going down in Leimert Park. Music, dancing, food and a lot of good energy. #JuneteenthDay @LATACO pic.twitter.com\/DhKgfobRCC 2.22am BST In Raleigh, North Carolina, it seems demonstrators were successful in toppling the statue atop a 75-foot monument to Confederate soldiers. A Confederate statue is down in #Raleigh pic.twitter.com\/0FCXkocD4Q Related: Barriers placed around Robert E Lee statue as activists target Confederate monuments Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jun\/19\/juneteenth-us-protests-policing-donald-trump-rayshard-brooks-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\">Juneteenth: rallies and celebrations across America commemorate end of slavery \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands celebrate Juneteenth with anti-racism marchesFauci and Birx both raised concerns about Tulsa eventPresident warns \u2018agitators, looters or lowlifes\u2019 will be treated more harshly than they have been in liberal-run citiesOfficer involved in shooting of Breonna Taylor to be firedSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.56am BST Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}