Parade of Flags at 2019 One World Day in Cleveland

A highlight of the 74th annual One World Day in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens is the annual Parade of Flags where marchers in native costumes and flags of their heritage march down MLK Blvd.

Puerto Rico in Parade

Chinese Garden

Haiti in Parade

In 2019, after the marchers commemorated the historic Baltic Way of 30 years ago by forming their own human chain joining hands along Martin Luther King Blvd, the Parade resumed.

Units included communities of Chinese, Peruvian, German, Irish, Polish, Lithuanian, Mexican, Haitian, Sudanese, Latvian, Estonian, Slovak, Slovenian, French, Hmong, Syrian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Ethiopian, Colombian, Finnish, Indian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Armenian, Vietnamese, Korean, Uzbek, Turkish, Rusin, Czech, and more.  Channel 19 news anchor Chris Tanaka and Sheila Murphy Crawford served as MCs.

See more of the Parade of Flags at One World Day

10th annual Cleveland Asian Festival

The 10th annual Cleveland Asian Festival was held on the weekend of May 18 and 19 in Cleveland's AsiaTown neighborhood on Payne Avenue. It has become a not-to-miss annual event with great entertainment, food, shopping and fun.

Photos and videos from the 10th annual Cleveland Asian Festival 

CAF board and politicians

Kwan Family Lion Team with Wayne Wong and Mayor Jackson

Mayor Jackson gives proclamation to Vi Huynh

Wayne Wong and Chris Tanaka

2019 Cleveland International Hall of Fame Inductions

Photos/videos of the 2019 Cleveland International Hall of Fame Inductions

Gio Castiglione sang the national anthem

MC Chris Tanaka

CIHF Co-founder Dan Hanson

Cleveland Firefighters Honor Guard

Invocation with Sreedhara Sree, a Hindu priest at Shiva Vishnu Temple,

Watch us on TV tonight

If you didn't get a ticket to the sold out Cleveland International Hall of Fame inductions tonight we will have video posted on ClevelandPeople.com in a few days.

You can watch lived fees on Ch 19 as news anchor Chris Tanaka will be our co-MC.

Also live streaming on Ch 19 Facebook page as we honor:

Sister Alicia Alvarado

Sheila Murphy Crawford

Dr. Atul Mehta

Abdullah (Abby) Mina

Ralph Perk Jr.

Judge Ray Pianka (posthumously)