Town of Lexington celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a person who continues inspiring and making others grow to be dreamers.
“The motion he led didn’t cease when a bullet rang out in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. The gunman didn’t notice which you can kill a dreamer, however you can not kill a dream,” stated Dr. David Corridor, the keynote speaker at this 12 months’s commemorative ceremony.
Corridor can also be the President of the College of the Virgin Islands.
“Dr. King’s legacy, we’re nonetheless standing on his shoulders, and so I believe it’s necessary to cross these classes and untold classes all the way down to our younger folks.
It’s solely a lot that you simply be taught within the context of faculty. However there’s sure issues which can be handed down by the generations that we are able to instill in our youth about MLK’s legacy,” added Devine Carama, the director of One Lexington, a company whose mission is to coordinate, leverage and mobilize metropolis authorities and group assets to scale back gun violence with youth and younger adults ages 13 – 29 within the metropolis of Lexington.
Rashaun West attended the annual march and the commemorative program alongside his household, he spoke on protecting the legacy alive.
“And it’s actually necessary that we train love, not simply exterior the group, however inside one another,” stated West.
“He acknowledged and I quote, change doesn’t roll in on the wheels of inevitability, however comes by steady battle,” additionally added Dr. Corridor, quoting Dr. King.
West additionally spoke on his household having ties to Dr. King, “My spouse, her nice uncle marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Taylor, and that was simply actually necessary.”
“There isn’t a higher approach to honor Dr. King than to maintain lighting candles of hope, by how we stay, who we elect, and what we do every day,” additionally stated Dr. Corridor.
This marked the fiftieth 12 months Lexington has held a freedom march and a commemorative program, one of many longest-running applications honoring Dr. King.
Dr. King would’ve simply celebrated his 94th birthday on Sunday.
