MLK

During a celebration of the legacy left behind by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this week, Glenda Robinson opened her speech by saying she was going to tell us "all about the civil rights movement, because I was there." I thought to myself: 'Self, we're going to be here forever.' She marched with King in the 1960s and was attending college in Memphis, TN, the same place the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1968. She said she would never forget that day. She was in her dorm room when the shot rang out. Today, she is active in educating people about the movement, saying we all have sacrifices to make in our lives, just as King did during his time. She and other members of the Second Baptist Church of Boulder entertained the crowd gathered with gospel singing between her vivid stories of her time during the Watts Riot of 1965 and the Selma to Montgomery March, among others. Oh yeah, we were out in less than two hours.