37th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative breakfast held in St. Augustine

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee of St. Johns County Inc. hosted its 37th yearly commemorative meal astatine Flagler College connected Monday.

News4JAX anchor Melanie Lawson was the keynote talker for event, which was sold out.

People astatine the lawsuit celebrated King’s acts of work that person shaped the nation.

The taxable for this year’s lawsuit was “No One is Free, Until We Are All Free.”

“The value of Dr. King’s nationalist vacation is thing that we request to proceed and support the bequest alive, truthful I deliberation it’s important for america particularly those who person been inherited the mantle to proceed the bequest of Dr. King and effort to marque definite that the young radical truly cognize what his beingness is each about,” said Thomas Jackson, president of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee of St. Johns County Inc.

During the event, precocious schoolhouse students were awarded world scholarships to proceed their acquisition astatine an instauration of higher learning.

After the meal wrapped up, determination was a soundless march that began astatine 11:30 a.m. astatine 86 MLK Avenue to Plaza de la Constitucion. The Rev. Anthony Britton from New Mount Moriah Christian Ministries served arsenic the plaza speaker.