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Broadway Heights Community Celebrates MLK's 91st Birthday

By Joe Hong / Education Reporter
Published January 15, 2020 at 2:03 PM PST
This story was published more than 5 years ago.
Residents of Broadway Heights celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Jan. 15, 2020.
Joe Hong
Residents of Broadway Heights celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Jan. 15, 2020.

While the MLK holiday is five days away, residents of the Broadway Heights neighborhood gathered to celebrate the civil rights leader's birthday on Wednesday.

The event gathered community leaders and students on Martin Luther King Way where they heard a reenactment of King's most famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Broadway Heights Community Celebrates MLK’s 91st Birthday
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“We wanted the students to understand why there are so many Americans of color who ascribe to the freedom that Dr. King so richly spoke of in many of his speeches," said Booker Sanders, a Broadway Heights Community Council member who hosted the event.

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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia on Jan. 15, 1929. The San Diego celebration of him continues on Sunday, with the annual parade on Harbor Drive and the All People’s Celebration on Monday, in Balboa Park.

Corrected: March 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM PDT
Correction: An earlier version of story said the MLK annual parade would be on Saturday. It will be on Sunday, starting at 2 p.m. on Harbor Drive.

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Joe Hong covered education stories across KPBS platforms. Prior to joining the KPBS newsroom, he covered three school districts for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs. He has written about school finance, negligence in special education, and school board misconduct. Previously, he covered equity issues and historically black colleges and universities for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine based in Fairfax, Virginia. Before a career in journalism, he was pursuing a doctorate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. He pivoted to journalism in 2016 and earned a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2017, specializing in investigative reporting. In September 2019, he completed The Data Institute, a two-week workshop for journalists of color taught by ProPublica in collaboration with the Ida B. Wells Society.
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