For a large crowd in Kleinhans Music Hall Sunday night, the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. remains strong and needs to be passed on to the new generation. The pounding drums and dancers of the African American Cultural Center are one of the key artistic elements of the annual event, this year with the theme of The Color of Unity: Following the Dream.
Some speakers remembered King coming to Buffalo, with Emcee Rev. James Lewis III saying he was there and remembered the intensity of the man and his message.
The guest speaker was Rev. Troy Bronner, senior pastor of Elim Christian Fellowship.
"I would suggest that The Color of Unity has something to do with Martin Luther King's understanding of a beloved community and his concept of a loved community is not romanticism, but being socially and morally concerned about all people," said Bronner.
Bronner says King in his time was concerned about poor people at a time when that was not a common concern and it brought him to Memphis to support a garbage workers strike for better wages. That's where he was killed on April 4, 1968.
