D.C. concert, parade to mark Emancipation Day

The Emancipation Day parade through downtown tomorrow will close sections of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest for most of the day as hundreds are expected to celebrate the 144th anniversary of the end of slavery in the District.
The parade, more than 100 years old, is a celebration of President Abraham Lincoln's freeing 3,100 blacks in the District in 1862 -- nearly nine months before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation.