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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Mar 26, 2014, 12:07 PM Mar 2014

NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade Controversy

Dana Gethers

The annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade may not take place this year as some of the parade’s original board members have resigned and members of the community are unsure about what this will mean for the parade, set to take place on June 8. The first National Puerto Rican Day Parade took place in 1958, and the event has since been become an annual celebration as Puerto Ricans and those of Puerto Rican heritage across the nation travel to New York to march along Fifth Avenue on the second Sunday in June.

The court-ordered resignations of several officials came after an 8-month state investigation into the misappropriation of funds by the National Puerto Rican Day Parade Inc., the nonprofit that organizes the parade.

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2014/mar/21/nyc-puerto-rican-day-parade-controversy/

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