[VIDEO] Just sharing this to let you know after two years the Bud Billiken back to school parade is back in Bronzeville this year. According to Dr. Marc Sengestack - Executive Director of the Chicago Defender Charities - in 2021 there was an abbreviated parade and there was none in 2020 due to the pandemic. This year full parade is back in force.
Dr. Sengestack discusses this parade on this recent edition. The parade will be on August 13th...
AND, since this is an election year politicians will be there. Next year we'll have a mayoral race so there's that going on also.
[VIDEO] Today is a huge day for wrestling. WWE's NXT UK brand will have their 2nd NXT UK TakeOver event from Cardiff in Wales to be streamed live this afternoon on the WWE Network. On the same night All Elite Wrestling will have their PPV All Out event from the Sears Centre in Chicago (actually Hoffman Estates, Illinois). AEW is often expected to be the new competitor to WWE.
Over 20 years ago the competitor to WWE (or actually back then the World Wrestling Federation) was an organization out of Atlanta, Georgia known as World Championship Wrestling. In this vignette we see wrestler 2 Cold Scorpio introduce new blood on the block.
It was quite a corny segment, however, I did wish that Scorpio could continue to use this theme. It was more memorable unfortunately that his run in WCW back in the early 1990s. What I can say for him is that back then there weren't too many black wrestlers performing the high flying style.
Aside from this segment where he stepped with these children to school, he did go on and have runs in such prominent promotions as Extreme Championship Wrestling and WWE. However for this segment he deserved more than what he got from this during his career.
I hope as the young people return to school next week that they also step to school.
