The nation’s largest demonstration of cultural pleasure marches up New York Metropolis’s Fifth Avenue from forty third Avenue to 79th Avenue on Sunday, starting at 11 a.m. CT. The celebration might be streamed on ABC7Chicago.com.

The parade’s scholarship gala fundraiser was held on Saturday night time on the Central Park Zoo. Eyewitness Information anchor Joe Torres was there.

Since 2014, the parade’s scholarship program has awarded greater than $1.2 million to Puerto Rican faculty college students.

Study extra right here on this press launch from parade organizers, and go to them at nprdpinc.org.

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U.S. Secretary of Schooling Miguel Cardona will function Grand Marshal.

Cardona, the twelfth U.S. Secretary of Schooling, has devoted his profession to serving college students, educators, and households as an elementary college instructor, college principal, district administrator, and, most just lately, as commissioner of schooling for the state of Connecticut.

His deal with fairness and excellence for all learners has pushed his work in any respect ranges of the schooling sector, and he has led the federal authorities’s effort to assist states in reopening America’s public colleges for in-person studying amid the restoration from the pandemic — transferring from solely 46% of colleges open when President Joe Biden took workplace to just about 100% of colleges open as we speak.

Underneath his management, the U.S. Division of Schooling additionally has distributed historic funding via the American Rescue Plan to assist Okay-12 colleges and faculties and has granted greater than $13 billion in pupil mortgage forgiveness.

Cardona earned a bachelor’s diploma at Central Connecticut State College in addition to a Grasp’s diploma and doctorate diploma from the College of Connecticut. He and his spouse Marissa are the proud mother and father of two youngsters who attend public college.

NPRDP celebrates its sixty fifth Anniversary
The 2022 Parade might be devoted to the municipality of Cidra and the Puerto Rican group of the Larger Philadelphia space.

Teams fascinated by collaborating in Parade and 152nd Avenue Cultural Pageant can apply on-line at NPRDPinc.org

On Sunday, June 12, the NPRDP will rejoice 65 years of showcasing the most effective of Puerto Rican tradition, achievement and legacy with music, dance and colourful shows of cultural pleasure earlier than an estimated 1.5 million spectators. After a two-year hiatus as a consequence of COVID-19, the Nationwide Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) Board of Administrators broadcasts particulars for its large return to New York Metropolis’s Fifth Avenue. The NPRDP serves to unite roughly 8 million Puerto Ricans dwelling throughout the 50 states and Puerto Rico in cultural pleasure and custom.

“This can be a milestone 12 months for the Parade, and our return to Fifth Avenue is yet one more signal that NYC and the Puerto Rican group are sturdy, resilient and as vibrant as ever,” stated NPRDP Board Chair, Louis Maldonado. “The NPRDP Board of Administrators invitations all Boricuas within the New York Metropolis space, Puerto Rico and throughout the patria extendida (diaspora) to hitch us on June 12 to exclaim ¡WEPA! and sing ‘Qué bonita bandera,’ simply as now we have for the final 64 years.”

Over the previous two years, the NPRDP Board of Administrators continued the annual custom by pivoting to smaller processions on Fifth Avenue and 2-hour TV specials airing on ABC7 in New York Metropolis and Telecinco in Puerto Rico, which helped the Puerto Rican group rejoice nearly. Teams fascinated by collaborating within the 2022 Parade ought to go to the “Floats & Contingents” web page on the Parade’s web site, NPRDPinc.org/floats, for extra particulars and directions for finishing a web based utility. All contingents and floats will need to have cultural components as a part of their presentation.

The 2022 Parade might be devoted to the municipality of Cidra, Puerto Rico. Referred to as the Pueblo de la Eterna Primavera (City of Everlasting Spring), Cidra is situated within the central, mountainous area of the island and is dwelling to roughly 40,000 cidreños. The Honored Stateside Neighborhood would be the Larger Philadelphia Space, which is dwelling to greater than 250,000 Puerto Ricans dwelling in communities throughout Philadelphia, Berks and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania; in addition to Camden, Atlantic and Cumberland counties in New Jersey and Wilmington, Delaware. Different themes, tributes and particular person honorees for the 2022 celebration might be introduced over the approaching weeks.

The NPRDP Board of Administrators thanks for following sponsors and media companions for his or her assist in making the sixty fifth Annual celebration potential: MManhattan Beer Distributors and the Walt Disney Firm.

ABC7 New York, Verizon Wi-fi, SEIU 1199, the Miranda Household Basis, the Mets Basis, the Coca-Cola Firm, Acacia Community, Metropolis College of New York, HBO Max, Pepsico, Fashionable Financial institution, Pfizer, Liberty Coca-Cola, NBC4 and Telemundo New York, Univision, Door Sprint, Montefiore, Rainbow Attire and MetroPlus Well being.”

152nd Avenue Pageant
Kicking off the 2022 celebration would be the NPRDP’s 152nd Avenue Cultural Pageant, on Might twenty eighth on 152nd Avenue between Jackson and Tinton Avenues within the Bronx. The pageant is a family-friendly occasion makes the celebration extra accessible to native communities by showcasing artisans, cultural actions, meals, music, leisure for adults and youngsters.

Purposes for the 152nd Avenue Cultural Pageant are being accepted for artisans, group teams, distributors and sponsors eager to take part. Extra occasion particulars and directions for finishing a web based vendor utility may be discovered at NPRDPinc.org/152nd-street-festival.

Gala Fundraiser to Profit NPRDP Scholarship Program
On Saturday, June eleventh, the NPRDP will host a Gala Fundraiser on the Central Park Zoo to assist the NPRDP Scholarship Program. Since 2014, the NPRDP has awarded over $1.2 million to Puerto Rican college students going to school. The Gala Fundraiser convenes honorees, group leaders, elected officers and company sponsors to rejoice Puerto Rican achievement whereas supporting college students in pursuit of upper schooling. For tickets, go to NPRDPinc.org/gala. Proceeds from the gala ticket gross sales will profit the NPRDP Scholarship Program.
Along with the Gala, NPRDP is using expertise to boost funds for its scholarship program via a collaboration with Mowsse, one of many first impartial digital marketplaces for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Mowsse has chosen the Nationwide Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship Fund as its first philanthropic funding.