We spent the day at Lawndale yesterday in the midst of a historic and busy day in the neighborhood. April 4th marks the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assasination in 1968. And so on this day, the Dr. King Legacy apartment complex in Lawndale had its ribbon cutting ceremony. MLK III, state and local politicians, and others joined in celebrating the completion of these 44 units of affordable housing in the neighborhood that were erected on the site that MLK Jr. lived with his family in 1966 as he came north to fight injustice. About 500 children drew a "I have a dream" picture and those pictures were scanned into a computer and made into the mural of MLK Jr. that you see in the picture.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.....Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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