The 36th Annual Greensboro NAACP Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade will take place Monday, Jan. 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., continuing a tradition that traces directly back to the renaming of one of Greensboro’s major thoroughfares more than three decades ago.
The parade is sponsored by the Greensboro Branch of the NAACP and will once again travel, of course, along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive – a street whose name, and the parade itself, exist largely because of the persistence of Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston.
This year’s honorary grand marshals are Bishop Bryan J. Pierce Sr. and First Lady Debra A. Pierce of Mount Zion Baptist Church of Greensboro. The grand marshals are Denise Roth, Greensboro mayor pro tem, and Frankie Jones Jr., the Guilford County commissioner representing District 7 until the end of this year…