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The ODUNDE Festival, the nation's largest African American cultural street festival, is coming back in-person on June 11, 2023.
The 49th Annual Odunde Festival starts a week of events Sunday, June 2 and will culminate with one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country on June 9 around the area of 23rd and South ...
Odunde Festival returns to Philadelphia 01:29. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The skies are clearing just in time for the largest Black and African American street festival in the country.
Ask most Philadelphians to name a holy place and the Schuylkill River is unlikely spring to mind. But at the Odunde festival in South Philly on Sunday, that tributary of the Delaware became a kind of ...
As Philadelphia gears up for an eventful summer, the city has taken the opportunity to highlight the upcoming Odunde Festival Week as the nation’s largest African-American cultural festival ...
Odunde Festival celebrates 50 years of bringing African culture and cuisine to South Philadelphia 08:38. More from CBS News. City to address "dangerous" intersection at South and LeCount streets.
Recognized as the nation’s largest Black and African cultural festival, this year’s Odunde festival is expected to draw a half a million to Philadelphia this weekend.
Sunday’s 43rd annual Odunde Festival will feature many of its traditional aspects — like the noontime procession to the Schuylkill to honor the Yoruba river goddess Oshun. But missing from the ...
The neighborhood surrounding the intersection of Grays Ferry Avenue and South Street has been named and renamed a few times over the years. Southwest Center City. Naval Square. Schuylkill Square ...
This year marks the first Odunde without its co-founder, Lois Fernandez, who died in August 2017 at age 81. On Saturday, 23rd and South Street — the heart of the festival — was officially ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The CEO of ODUNDE, the nation's largest African American cultural festival, says everyone should feel safe coming to this weekend's festivities in Philadelphia. "Don't be scared ...
The ODUNDE Festival, the nation’s largest African American cultural street festival, is coming back in-person on June 12, 2022 after two years online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.