Northern California’s largest celebration honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. may have eclipsed last year’s crowd of 27,000, Sacramento police said Monday. Estimates ranged as high as 29,000, and MLK 365 director Sam Starks said the 34th annual Capitol March for the Dream might have been the biggest ever.
The march kicked off at Oak Park Community Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where several thousand community leaders – including ministers, activists, law enforcement and elected officials – walked the first “extra mile” to Sacramento City College, where most of the marchers converged. “This is the unity mile,” Starks said, urging everyone to strike up a conversation with a marcher from a different racial, ethnic or religious background.
Pastor Kevin Ross of Unity Church of Sacramento led about 100 congregants Monday, each carrying signs declaring white, black, gay, straight, Latino, American Indian, senior citizen, Asian, Jewish, Muslim “lives matter.”
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