Mount Vernon Optic-Herald

Zakenya Linwood, Maya Monroe, and Nicki Dunlap led the approximately 15 participants in the annual Martin Luther King March along Andrews St. The group marched from the Bookman Temple Church of God in Christ on Grady St. to the downtown courthouse on Monday, January 16. See the Jan. 19 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for information about the celebration conducted later that evening at the BTCOGIC.