The theme this year ‘s program was “Youth Empowerment”.
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Randolph promised to keep coming to the Statehouse until King’s dream comes to its full meaning in a state with wide gaps in education achievement between school districts in rich, white communities and poorer, black ones, and where the governor and Republican-dominated Legislature have refused to take federal money to expand Medicaid.
Throughout the march, snippets of conversation about this hard process could be heard, as could mentions of the “Black Lives Matter” movement and all the progress it’s made in advancing a conversation about race in the country.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports (http://bit.ly/1n6WByS) that the social media message told people how to avoid being charged with a crime if they struck someone during the Martin Luther King Day march and rally Monday on a bridge linking St. Paul and Minneapolis.
As public officials, students and parents sat in the auditorium at Monday’s event, Edouard couldn’t help but think that the community could use more events like this even when it’s not Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Protesters held marches for fair housing, and eventually got the Chicago real estate board to stop opposing laws that were discriminatory, Castro said.
The sorority’s awarded more than $300,000 over the years in scholarships.
An activist long before he became an actor, Glover said that as a student at San Francisco University he participated in a five-month protest that would lead to creation of the nation’s African-American studies program.
Saul Adams, 69, and his cousin Michael Pemry, 74, both USA military veterans, said they also enjoyed the energy of young people in the parade.
U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., listened as Rivers explained that Martin Luther King Jr.
“It feels great”, said volunteer, Armando Gutierrez. “I’m not so sure that anyone else could have done what Dr. King did”.
“It was fantastic”, she said.
Many students who attended the march also believed it is an important tradition in celebrating and remembering Dr. King. “When we had the event on the north side of town, it kind of in itself could have presented may have felt like it was segregated”, says Vanessa Miles.
“This is really a day on, not a day off”, Williams said. The civil rights leader’s birthday…
“I talk to people who were in the parade as children and now their children are in it”, Williams said.
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“The fact that they changed the route this year was very instrumental and because to me it made it more inclusive”.
