There are hundreds of American streets, avenues, expressways and roads named in honor of Dr. King, including one right here in Baltimore: motorists have been coursing along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard since the early ‘80s. In 2008, a group of 10 students from D.C. visited Baltimore’s MLK Blvd, and 12 other U.S. cities with streets named for the civil rights leader. The kids’ observations and interviews about the positive and negative elements they found on the streets were filmed for a documentary; it was released in 2012. The students asked residents, community leaders and academics “Do you think these streets represent King’s dream?” Last January, Sheilah spoke with Charneice Fox Richardson, co-director of The MLK Streets Project.
This segment originally aired on January 20, 2014.
