The pumpkin is sitting on Martin Luther King Boulevard as it enters the African American arts and culture district, the Leimert Park neighborhood just southwest of downtown L.A.
I thought the context is kind of interesting: 25 years ago, in 1983, Santa Barbara Boulevard in South Los Angeles was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, three years before President Ronald Reagan signed a law declaring Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday. That event was celebrated as the first ever Kingdom Day Parade, now an annual tradition.
I took the pumpkin there last night around midnight, it’s a block from my house, put it on a saw horse, the cops stopped to check it out and I was back home by 1 a.m.
The pumpkin is sitting on Martin Luther King Boulevard as it enters the African American arts and culture district, the Leimert Park neighborhood just southwest of downtown L.A.
I thought the context is kind of interesting: 25 years ago, in 1983, Santa Barbara Boulevard in South Los Angeles was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, three years before President Ronald Reagan signed a law declaring Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday. That event was celebrated as the first ever Kingdom Day Parade, now an annual tradition.
I took the pumpkin there last night around midnight, it’s a block from my house, put it on a saw horse, the cops stopped to check it out and I was back home by 1 a.m.