San Francisco’s annual Lowrider Parade, a decades-long tradition in the city’s Mission District, will be shown for the first time on live television on Saturday.
The parade on Mission Street is part of the city’s celebration of Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month and will showcase lowriders from across the country, with a special focus on women-led car clubs.
In the city that once banned cruising on Mission Street, the parade is being presented by the San Francisco Lowrider Council, formed in 1981 to resist the racial profiling of Latinos who reveled in the display of their automobile artwork. It wasn’t until last year that California finally enacted a law prohibiting lowrider bans and anti-cruising ordinances across the Golden State…