A free in-car COVID-19 rapid-testing event kicked off in Los Angeles on Martin Luther King Jr. Day instead of a parade after a surge of coronavirus cases canceled the annual planned event.
LOS ANGELES -- Monday marked a day of remembrance and celebration of the legacy of civil rights leader, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"It was the biggest disappointment," said Dr. Adrian Dove, chairman of the Kingdom Day Parade and the Congress of Racial Equality."We had hundreds of participants lined up, and bleachers. And we spent a lot of money getting it all set. And it was only a week and half before the parade that the numbers shot up so high,"
"Trying to make ends meet, you know, trying to feed my family. What else can I do but continue? Days like today remind me what it takes to continue to fight," said Sabrena Whigham, a local vendor who has been coming to the parade for years."We are in adverse situations, so that reminds me, even though how tired I feel, how weary I get, it was nothing like what they suffered, the dogs and the beating, so I must carry on.
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