AURORA | Aurora’s month-long celebration of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. continues, bringing a presentation of music, dance and film to the city in honor of the civil rights icon.
Themed “I Am The Dream,” the series of events will reflect on the life of the Georgia-born Baptist minister and activist, who emerged as one of the most prominent voices for Black civil rights in the 1950s and ’60s before he was assassinated in 1968.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today.” Now, millions of people honor King in the same way…