Sun, Jan 17
45th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade — San Diego
A parade on the Sunday of a long weekend is a different animal to one on the holiday itself. Nobody is there because the office shut. Everyone standing on Harbor Drive at eleven in the morning chose it over a lie-in, which changes what the thing feels like from the kerb.
Forty-five years in, it is run by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha — Dr King's own fraternity — and the make-up of it is the point: high school marching bands, drill teams, divine nine step squads, churches, union locals, youth organisations and the kind of community floats that took a garage six weekends to build. The step squads are what people film.
It runs south along Harbor Drive from Ash to Pacific Highway with the water on one side, which is a strange and good place to watch a parade.
Sunday January 17, 2027, 11am. Free to stand and watch.
A parade on the Sunday of a long weekend is a different animal to one on the holiday itself. Nobody is there because the office shut. Everyone standing on Harbor Drive at eleven in the morning chose it over a lie-in, which changes what the thing feels like from the kerb.
Forty-five years in, it is run by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha — Dr King's own fraternity — and the make-up of it is the point: high school marching bands, drill teams, divine nine step squads, churches, union locals, youth organisations and the kind of community floats that took a garage six weekends to build. The step squads are what people film.
It runs south along Harbor Drive from Ash to Pacific Highway with the water on one side, which is a strange and good place to watch a parade.
Sunday January 17, 2027, 11am. Free to stand and watch.
Forty-five years in, it is run by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha — Dr King's own fraternity — and the make-up of it is the point: high school marching bands, drill teams, divine nine step squads, churches, union locals, youth organisations and the kind of community floats that took a garage six weekends to build. The step squads are what people film.
It runs south along Harbor Drive from Ash to Pacific Highway with the water on one side, which is a strange and good place to watch a parade.
Sunday January 17, 2027, 11am. Free to stand and watch.
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A parade on the Sunday of a long weekend is a different animal to one on the holiday itself. Nobody is there because the office shut. Everyone standing on Harbor Drive at eleven in the morning chose it over a lie-in, which changes what the thing feels like from the kerb.
Forty-five years in, it is run by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha — Dr King's own fraternity — and the make-up of it is the point: high school marching bands, drill teams, divine nine step squads, churches, union locals, youth organisations and the kind of community floats that took a garage six weekends to build. The step squads are what people film.
It runs south along Harbor Drive from Ash to Pacific Highway with the water on one side, which is a strange and good place to watch a parade.
Sunday January 17, 2027, 11am. Free to stand and watch.
Forty-five years in, it is run by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha — Dr King's own fraternity — and the make-up of it is the point: high school marching bands, drill teams, divine nine step squads, churches, union locals, youth organisations and the kind of community floats that took a garage six weekends to build. The step squads are what people film.
It runs south along Harbor Drive from Ash to Pacific Highway with the water on one side, which is a strange and good place to watch a parade.
Sunday January 17, 2027, 11am. Free to stand and watch.
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