A beautification effort at Orville Wright STEAM Middle School was one of several events held across L.A. on Monday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Aminata Diagne sat cross-legged in a campus corridor staring up at the outlines of a new mural.The 27-year-old Pasadena resident — one of about 1,000 volunteers who packed a Westchester middle school on Monday for a day-of-service event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — said it was important for her to spend the day doing something for others. Something tangible, she said, something beyond a cursory recitation of “I Have a Dream.
“Dr. King said we can all be great because we can all serve,” he said, before welcoming a moderator to the stage for a panel discussion called “A Seat at the Table,” including Green and several other guests. Former Lakers forward A.C. Green, talks during a panel discussion during the day of service at Orville Wright STEAM Magnet Middle School.Another panelist, Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University, told the crowd that she was 10 years old when King was assassinated in 1968. The next day, Crenshaw recalled, she and several other students were corralled into a church, where volunteers asked them if they had anything they wanted to share about King.
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