An older white man next to me in the crowd complained that the Mummers this year were a “bunch of wussies” and that “they were so lackluster.” The crowd wasn’t shy about expressing itself.

Conversations surrounding blackface and the Mummers should feel like déjà vu to everyone by now. Last year, there was much outrage after the Mayor’s Office and our city’s predominantly white ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has disqualified a mummers group after at least two members wore blackface paint to the city’s annual Mummers parade on New Year’s Day.

Every New Year's Day, Philadelphians ring in the new year with a tradition known as the Mummers Parade, an event featuring scores of marchers in elaborate costumers. At the 116th annual Mummers ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct Kinkel's name. A Mummers group was thrown out of Philadelphia's annual New Year's Day parade because at least one member marched down South Broad ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has disqualified a mummers group after at least two members wore blackface paint to the city’s annual Mummers parade on New Year’s Day.

At the 116th annual Mummers Parade on Friday, the revelers included costumes and dance routines mocking the Black Lives Matter movement and transgender personality Caitlyn Jenner.