DAYTON — This year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. march will be a little different than past years.
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News Center 7′s Amber Jenkins spoke with Anthony B. Whitmore, president of MLK Day Dayton, about the new plans to address youth violence in Dayton.
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The MLK march is changing routes and changing focus, all in pursuit of calling more attention to youth violence.
“Dr. King’s dream is still there for each of us to strive to make it,” Whitmore said.
The march is an opportunity for the Dayton community to reflect and grow, as well as build relationships Whitmore says.
“We have an opportunity and when we do things such as this, programs and workshops, we come together intergenerationally and talk about whatever is going on in the minds of young people,” Whitmore said.
After the march, there will be a conflict resolution workshop.
“How do we address conflict? Sometimes I get upset and I emotionally allow that person to control me,” Whitmore said.
Along with the march and conflict resolution workshop, there will be a banquet at the Dayton Arcade, a place where people of color were not welcome when Whitmore was little.
“I get emotional each time I come here for a lot of reasons that I won’t share, I’ll share that the night of the banquet,” Whitmore said.
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