“A sense of pride in our community, a sense of pride in what Martin Luther King was standing for and what he was trying to accomplish for us”, said Aaron Webb, Roanoke resident.
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The memorial is scheduled to be unveiled on August 5, the 50th anniversary of the Marquette Park march.
Phan, a Spokane native, says celebrating Dr. King’s legacy by helping out local organizations is a great way to spend the day.
“You forced important power in high places to recognize that the scared memory of the Emanuel Nine would be parched by a symbol of injustice flying over the Capitol”, he said at a prayer breakfast.
Doctor King’s youngest daughter, Bernice King, will be the keynote speaker for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at UNCW this Friday at 7 p.m.in Kenan Auditorium.
They’re spreading Dr. King’s message that all men are created equal and deserve to be treated with respect.
Had an assassin’s bullet not taken his life at the age of 39, King would have turned 87 on Friday.
“When I think about the state of affairs in America, it seems to me since Dr. King’s assassination, we’ve kind of failed to follow the blueprint”, King said.
U.S. Bank, Radio One Cleveland and Take 5 Rhythm and Jazz partnered to make this “MLK Dinner and Jazz for the Homeless” event possible.
“Today makes it to where I can go and come and do peaceful things”, one participant said. He also recounted where he was the day Dr. King was assassinated.
In Minneapolis, activists with the group Black Lives Matter planned to march onto a Mississippi River bridge that connects Minneapolis and St. Paul to protest what they say is the mistreatment of blacks by police. “In a lot of other communities, they are in neighborhoods that are not well-maintained and in areas where they have not been able to improve that infrastructure, so I think our community was ahead of the curve when the location was identified”, Boudreaux said.
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Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. When Dr. King was 15 years old in 1944 he traveled north to Simsbury for a job working in tobacco fields, and while there he worshipped and sang in the choir at the First Church of Christ.
