"About 250 people staged a loud, traffic-stopping march through Center City yesterday, demanding an end to violence in Philadelphia schools.
Old and young, male and female, black, white, brown, and Asian, the demonstrators sought to celebrate and emulate the work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday was observed in Philadelphia and across the nation yesterday.
'If Dr. King had a choice of where he would be, he would be right here with you,' the Rev. LeRoi Simmons said as people gathered outside the School District offices on North Broad Street, preparing to march to the Arch Street Methodist Church."
'If Dr. King had a choice of where he would be, he would be right here with you,' the Rev. LeRoi Simmons said as people gathered outside the School District offices on North Broad Street, preparing to march to the Arch Street Methodist Church."