ATLANTA — Today is the Monday after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, which is observed as a national holiday.
While the day might just represent a day off from work for many non-elementary school students around the country, the holiday is a taken very seriously in the birthplace of the slain civil rights icon.
“Dr. King was a native Atlantan who matriculated as a student at Atlanta’s own Morehouse College, one of the nation’s most respected historically black colleges,” Atlanta Hawks Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Nzinga Shaw wrote via email.
Tourists from around the world come to visit and flood the streets in downtown Atlanta to pay their respects to King at his national historical park on Auburn Avenue.