Record Crowd Expected for Parade
Inglewood officials expect that this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, highlighted by two civil rights activists and an adviser to the television comedy the “Cosby Show,” will draw greater crowds than any of the eight previous celebrations.
Cesar Chavez, an activist for California farm workers who leads the United Farm Workers of America, will be the parade’s honorary grand marshal. Amelia Boynton Robinson, a 80-year-old board member for the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, will be a special guest.
Featured speaker will be Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint, an expert on minority family values who is an adviser to Bill Cosby’s popular sitcom.
The parade, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday on the north side of Hollywood Park racetrack, will proceed east on 90th Street to Crenshaw Boulevard. The march will end at First Church of God, 9550 S. Crenshaw, where a program honoring the slain civil rights activist will begin at 10 a.m.
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