Parade

You’ve probably noticed the rainbow flags flying throughout the city, stores promoting rainbow-colored options, festivities and more—particularly this month. June is internationally known as...

Many Beats...One Rhythm Windy City  Carnival A long standing tradition of Carnival in Chicago has been established for more than 20 years serving as the...

By McKenzie Marshall Chicago NNPA Defender Fellow   Chicago's annual Pride Festival kicked of this weekend in Boystown. There were many extravagant costumes from body paint to...

The game is over, but not the excitement for the Jackie Robinson West team. The City of Chicago gave them a parade Wednesday that...

The Jackie Robinson West Team may not have won the Little League World Series, but Chicago is still treating them like stars. Hopefully the young...

Photos credit: Worsom Robinson

The small town of Semmes, Alabama got the surprise of a lifetime when the Prancing Elites, an all male, gay dance team from Mobile,...

Parents, friends and Chicago Defender representatives looked on proudly as this year’s royal court for the 84th annual Bud Billiken Day Parade was...

  The 2013 Bud Billiken Day parade royal court enjoys a day out at the ballpark courtesy of the Chicago White Sox, as...

The annual traveling bikes and beer celebration, Tour de Fat, rolled into Chicago's Palmer Square Saturday and left one West Side bike non-profit with a little extra cash to boot. This year's Tour de Fat Chicago beneficiary, community-based non-profit West Town Bikes in Humboldt Park, ultimately netted more than $34,000 from the Tour de Fat ...