The wear orange event, held the first weekend in June, is a way to remember Hadiya Pendleton, who was 15 years old when she was shot and killed in Chicago in 2013. Just one week earlier, Pendleton had performed with her high school majorette squad at President Barack Obama's second inaugural parade. In response to her death, Pendleton's friends asked others to wear orange to raise awareness about gun violence.
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