{"id":670805,"date":"2010-02-20T21:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcae41970b"},"modified":"2010-02-20T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:38:39","slug":"pasadena-parade-marks-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/670805","title":{"rendered":"Pasadena parade marks Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcaf0c970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackhistoryparade2\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcaf0c970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcaf0c970b-500pi\" title=\"Blackhistoryparade2\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br> Pasadena&#8217;s 28th annual Black History Parade attracted several thousand spectators Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Bands, drill units and floats set off from Altadena&#8217;s Charles White Park and finished at a festival in Pasadena&#8217;s Robinson Park. Roughly 2,000 spectators lined the parade route while another 2,000 attended the festival, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The recently renovated Robinson Park is named after the family of local African American athletes Jackie Robinson, of baseball fame, and his brother, Mack Robinson, an Olympic medal-winning runner and community activist. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>KTLA anchorwoman Michaela Pereira was the celebrity grand marshal for the two-hour parade, which began at 10 a.m. and was followed by the festival of music, food and community activities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Gordon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcafb4970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackhistoryparade1\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcafb4970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8bcafb4970b-500wi\"><\/img><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: (Top) Amyha Fields, 4, enjoys a snow-cone at the Black History Parade and Festival held at Robinson Park in Pasadena. (Bottom) Parade marchers stroll the park. Credit: Irfan Khan \/ Los Angeles Times.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena&#8217;s 28th annual Black History Parade attracted several thousand spectators Saturday. Bands, drill units and floats set off from Altadena&#8217;s Charles White Park and finished at a festival in Pasadena&#8217;s Robinson Park. Roughly 2,000 spectators lined the parade route while another 2,000 attended the festival, according to authorities. The recently renovated Robinson Park is named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ovr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}