Students honor Martin Luther King Jr. with day of service

“I look forward to being here next year so the next speaker will be able to say in their state of the dream address, that the dream is not in disrepair”.

“We need to get to a point where we respect everyone as an individual”, Boyd said.

“It represents the celebration of the legacy of a great man, a great leader, who not only had a dream for himself, but for his family and every human being on earth”, said Alexander. “Not just for blacks but for all Americans”. “It’s so nice to be standing here and not looking at that flag”, said Ezell Pittman, who attended most of the King Day anti-flag rallies since they started in 2000.

To keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s dream alive, members of the community and St. Paul’s Baptist Church walked in the cold to symbolize how far the dream has gone, but there’s much more to accomplish.

Kelly Wiley shows us how people spent the day celebrating Dr. King’s legacy with fellowship and serving their community.

“We are the class of 1967, Thompkins High School and we have been participating for years”, said Mars Gray. “And so when you do, somebody like me and somebody like our station, we take that opportunity to make a difference and give back”. She said they’ve struggled with finding places to host some of their activities to help children at the center learn. But I think days like today kind of remind everybody that we are all one big community.

“Dr. King said change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle and that struggle is ours it is all of ours”, said O’Malley. 4th grader Miashia Denmark says she’s somewhat closely connected with King.

“We have to be more vigilant than we have in the past”, Rev. Roy Ferguson, President Emeritus of Tuscaloosa’s SCLC said.