Parades

The 111th Annual Santa Claus Parade winds through the streets of downtown Toronto on Sunday, November 15, 2015.

NEW YORK—Police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and congressmen—50 years after the Civil Rights Movement almost 2 million African-Americans fill just about every thinkable position throughout the city.

Each parade float was met with enthusiasm and cheers from parade goers, but few brought as many gasps and smiles as the Falun Dafa Association of Washington’s 46-foot long, 12-foot wide celestial ship.

Over 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners marched through Washington, D.C. on July 18, marking the 14th year of the persecution of their practice in China.

The streets of New York came alive on Thursday with those celebrating Thanksgiving among the wonders of the 86th Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among them, millions of small New Yorkers.

The annual Santa Claus Parade in downtown Toronto attracts spectators who welcome the holidays.

At an Italian Heritage Parade

Fifth Avenue was lined with Italian flags Monday for the Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan.

Spectators sipping on whole coconuts and chefs grilling curried meats—just a taste of Caribbean culture at the New York West Indian Carnival Festival Monday.

Around 5,000 practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, came from around the world to join a rally, a parade, a candlelight vigil and attend an experience-sharing conference in Washington, D.C.

For the first time, Atlanta Falun Gong practitioners marched in the Fourth of July parade in the newly formed city of Dunwoody.

Groups of instrument-playing schoolchildren, armed forces, and others marched on Sunday down the tree-lined Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx.

The Evanston Independence Day Parade first started 88 years ago in 1922.

Falun Gong adherents from across Canada held a rally and parade in Toronto on Sunday.

Drums and flutes sounded as the band warmed up.

The “Quit the CCP” movement took a prominent position in the massive parade of Falun Gong practitioners through the heart of New York on Saturday.

It is not your usual parade, there are no floats or beauty queens, no smiling, waving politicians, and no marching band in sight.