King Day, inauguration merge

Posted by Rick Orlov on January 20, 2009 6:31 AM | | Comments (0) |

A community breakfast celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Pacoima appeared to be at least as much about Barack Obama - with many participants wearing stylish Obama T-shirts and speakers earning ovations with mere mentions of the president-elect. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

Over sausage and eggs Monday, a mostly black crowd of more than 300 in the San Fernando Valley Boys & Girls Club basketball gym linked today with yesterday as religious leaders, singers and dramatists hailed Obama's inauguration this morning as a reward for King's sacrifice.

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