Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Selma and beyond

Members of Asbury United Methodist Church march in the City of Annapolis’s first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in Annapolis. (Joshua McKerrow/Baltimore Sun Media Group)

Diana Depaz, St. Petersburg, right, a member of the Gateway Christian Center, touches the hand of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on a poster on the groups bus as it drives along Central Avenue, IN St. Petersburg, Fla., during the 30th annual MLK Drum Major for Justice Parade, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. On the left is Starr Hutcherson, 3, St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Scott Keeler)

Barbara Carter holds up a sign as thousands marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Leah Romney, 10, left, and her sisters Thandi,12, center and Shelsea, 15, (all last names are Romney) pack food bags at the Howard County food bank during the Howard County Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They are from Fulton. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Baltimore, MD– January 19, 2015–Spectators watch at the annual parade in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.as it moves down Martin Luther King Boulevard. Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun

Horn players from the Dunbar High School marching band march in the annual parade in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)

Protesters embrace outside the Ferguson Police Department, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. Protesters marched several miles to the police department from the site where Michael Brown was killed last summer. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Thousands march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Lynda Blackmon Lowery speaks during a Martin Luther King Day appearance at the New York Historical Society in New York, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, told of her experiences as the youngest participant in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama demanding voting rights for African-Americans, detailed in her memoir “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom,” co-witten with Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley. Lowery stands in front of a Stephen Somerstein photograph of the march, on view at the museum. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Singer and song writer John Legend makes his way to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.,Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Miriam Harris, left, of Baltimore, Md., shouts during a march to honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Marchers hold up a their cellular phones to record the rapper Common and singer song writer, John Legend preform at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. Several celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Common, and David Oyelowo lock arms and march to promote the movie “Selma.”(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

David Oyelowo, who portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie “Selma” just before he marches to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Protesters along the street to chant for justice before they march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.,Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Oprah Winfrey lowers her head to pray with David Oyelowo, who portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie “Selma” before they march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

A spectator watches out his window as marchers make their way to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.,Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Marchers line up and lock arms before they make their way Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.,Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Community members sing and carry signs as they walk along Main Street during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day march, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Nacogdoches, Texas. (AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig)

Bryson Wade, front, holds a sign as he stands with Destiny Agnew during a prayer vigil before the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day march, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at Eugenia Sterne Park in Nacogdoches, Texas. (AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig)

Oprah Winfrey locks arms with David Oyelowo, left, who portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie “Selma,” Ava DuVernay, the director of “Selma” and rapper Common, far left, as they march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (2nd from left) and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser(2nd right) along with Harry Johnson (left), President and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation. participate in a wreath laying at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial during a ceremony on the National Mall on January 19, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King day was marked by many celebrations across the country. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks during a wreath laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on January 19, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King day was marked by many celebrations across the country. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

People walk at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on MLK Day January 19, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King day was marked by many celebrations across the country. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Dwayne Gilbert, center, of Philadelphia, marches to honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Early morning light shines on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on January 19, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Visitors gather at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to celebrate MLK day. (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Thousands march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Barbara Carter holds up a sign as thousands march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Thousands marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Rev. Al Sharpton, center, arrives with Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr, left, to lay a wreath at the site where Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in New York. The life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was remembered across New York City on Monday, the annual commemorations taking on added meaning at a time of increased focus on race relations in the nation’s largest city. Six months after Eric Garner, who is black, died in a white police officer’s chokehold, protests and speeches invoking his name provided a backdrop for the King commemorations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Demonstrators hold up signs as members of the cast of the movie “Selma” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie Selma in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Thousands march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie “Selma” in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protestors on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Selma and beyond

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