TURN OUT FOR KING EVENTS DOWN ON RAINY HOLIDAY
It didn't feel much like a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in San Francisco to Steve Zeltzer, a local film producer who visited the Yerba Buena Gardens memorial in honor of the slain civil rights leader Monday.
"This is a disgrace," Zeltzer said as he looked around and saw just a few dozen people studying large photographs of King while listening to broadcasts of his "I Have a Dream" speech.
"In San Francisco there should be 100,000 people marching in the streets, talking about the things MLK stood for: equality, democracy, freedom," Zeltzer said. "All these things are still relevant today, maybe more than ever. So where is everybody?" More...
Friday, January 15th
Today, is the actual Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King. Here's a video montage of some of Dr. King's speech as well as Stevie Wonder's tribute song to Dr. King.