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Mummers' New Year's Day protest parade takes over South Philly street

It is important to remember that the bulk of the mummers and their organized groups made it clear that they were not going to march this year because of health concerns, Kenney said. So the major divisions of the parade who are organized made that decision early on.
During the summer the city opted to cancel all large public gatherings and events in Philadelphia through February in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. These restrictions were imposed in July and have resulted in other major events in Philadelphia – like the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Broad Street Run – being called off, too. ....

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Mummers' New Year's Day protest parade gains support on Facebook

This all is an indication 2020 is going to end much like it began, with tension between Mayor Jim Kenney and some mummers. It began with the mayor calling out members of Froggy Carr after at least two of its mummers were seen in blackface during the 2020 parade. Kenney called the incident abhorrent, disqualified the club from the parade s competition and threatened to pull the city support for the Mummers parade entirely.
Froggy Carr s leaders condemned the racist display and there were weeks meetings between mummers leadership and city officials.
Mayor Jim Kenney has tried for years (like every Philly Mayor in the past) to cancel the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, a tradition preceding the birth of our nation, organizers of the protest parade wrote on Facebook. The first city-sanctioned parade took place in 1901, but the custom of mummery can be traced back to some of the earliest settlers in the region. ....

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