{"id":172813,"date":"2026-02-28T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:56:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-hosts-46th-annual-sistrunk-parade-and-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172813\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale hosts 46th annual Sistrunk Parade and Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can watch the parade at 8:45 a.m. in the video below lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KCEPDUQK2BCWRPWCFIMW64CI64.jpg\"  width=\"1041\" height=\"585\"\/>WPLG <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 The city of Fort Lauderdale is set to host its 46th annual Sistrunk Parade and Festival on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event, which begins at 8:45 a.m. on Sistrunk Boulevard, is expected to draw about 5,000 attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 anchor Calvin Hughes is one of four grand marshals for this year\u2019s parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The annual celebration honors diversity and highlights the historic African American community whose culture and contributions have helped shape Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 viewers can watch the parade when it begins in the video at the top of this page. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM Viewers can watch the parade at 8:45 a.m. in the video below&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-172813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}