2019 Grand Marshal: “Swift” Jarrett Hurd
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
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
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
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....