Racial inequities still exist, Brooks said, judging by the ongoing controversies over incidents in the last several years, most notably the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla.
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The life and activism of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Isn’t this a great day?”
Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said King reminded people that progress requires struggle from many people, including most who would remain nameless in the history books.
“You really get to see people let their guard down and just enjoy food and come inside and get warm and leave happy with warm bellies”, Kellerman said.
Across the United States, the 30th anniversary of the holiday to honour the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 was remembered in different ways. There were hundreds of actions and programs yesterday (January 18) created to not only reflect on King’s legacy, but extend and amplify it in a time when governments think it’s okay to deliver tainted water to the homes of Black families and police shootings of unarmed children go unanswered by the state.
Simpkins says those speeches initiated the Civil Rights Movement in Shreveport.
The latest on rallies, marches and speeches honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Most importantly the contribution he made to society as a whole, and what he’s done to try and push society to a new point of understanding about life and people getting along as one person”, said Ralph Jackson, Graham’s grandfather.
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.
“We reap the benefits today”, she said.
“Definitely learning a lot, to actually serve others, instead of doing things for ourselves”, said Wondell Smith, a volunteer.
Elsewhere, an overflow crowd showed up at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to celebrate its former pastor’s legacy at an annual commemorative service. “Celebrate! Act! King’s Legacy of Freedom for Our World”.
“Dr. King knew that in good times or in bad times, we need each other to survive”. They chained themselves and the cars together to form a line across the bridge and laid signs reading “BLACK HEALTH MATTERS” across the road.
Kit Ketcham, of Pacific Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, holds a candle before the candlelight walk honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday.
King first rose to prominence in 1955 when he led a successful boycott of the public buses in the southern city of Montgomery, Alabama, forcing the city to end its practice of segregating black passengers.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of South Los Angeles to for a Martin Luther King Jr.
