2021 Grand Marshal: Phillip Pannell

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Philip Pannell is a 45-year resident of the District of Columbia and since 1995 has served as the Executive Director of the nonprofit Anacostia Coordinating Council. In 2011 he received the President of the United States Call to Service Award, and in 2012 received the...

2019 Grand Marshal: JT’A Freeman & Keron Campbell, Youth Mayors

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DC Youth Mayors, JT’A Freeman (right) & Keron Campbell (left) are representing the close to 20,000 Youth Leaders and Alumni that have participated in the Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute. JT’A is a Senior at Bishop McNamara High, a member of the Lacrosse...

2019 Grand Marshal: “Swift” Jarrett Hurd

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Jarrett Hurd (born August 31, 1990) is an American professional boxer. He is currently a unified world light middleweight champion, having held the IBF title since 2017, and the WBA (Super) and IBO titles since 2018. As of December 2018, he is ranked as the...

2019 Grand Marshal: Kelly Harper

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Kelly Harper, a third-grade teacher at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School was honored with the 2019 DCPS Teacher of the Year Award by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials. Kelly Nicole Harper began her teaching career with Teach For America, teaching 3rd...

2019 Grand Marshal: Maisha Riddlesprigger

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On Dec. 17, 2018, Maisha Riddlesprigger, Principal of Ketcham Elementary School was honored with the 2019 DCPS Principal of the Year Award by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials. Read The DC Line Article: Maisha Riddlesprigger: What it really means...

2019 Grand Marshal: Charnice Milton

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On the night of May 27th, Charnice Milton, a twenty-seven-year-old journalist, was heading home from an assignment. She’d stopped to transfer buses in Anacostia, in Washington, D.C., after covering a neighborhood meeting for a Capitol Hill paper called the Hill Rag....