Martin Luther King Jr. Day was marked right now by the thirty eighth Kingdom Day Parade in Leimert Park.
Lots of of individuals lined the parade route, with days of rain lastly letting up and the skies clearing for the procession.
The grand marshal was George C. Fatheree III, the chief of a staff of attorneys who secured the return of Bruce’s Seaside to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce almost a century after it had been taken by Manhattan Seaside.
This was the primary time the parade might be on Martin Luther King Jr. Day since 2020. The 2021 parade was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 parade was initially canceled because of the severity of great surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations, then rescheduled on June 20, the day the federal Juneteenth vacation was noticed.