MLK Youth Day Postponed; March to Go Forward

NAACP Santa Cruz County announces that Martin Luther King Jr Youth Day has been postponed until Saturday, Jan. 28, due to potential for heavy rainfall on Jan. 14.

The MLK March for the Dream and commemorative service at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium will take place as scheduled on Monday, Jan. 16, beginning at 10 am.

The march will begin at Pacific Avenue and Cathcart Street and end at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium where participants will commemorate the accomplishments of the past and acknowledge the “fierce urgency of now” in forming a more just America. The program will start at 11 a.m. and end by 1 p.m.

The local NAACP invites organizations to register for the March at: https://forms.gle/MNCz4ocurvLrbtDx6.

Volunteers are needed to help monitor the march; sign up at: https://forms.gle/y3kscjRZk14a5HCR7.