A march is scheduled on Martin Luther King Jr. Day protesting the recent acts of police brutality in the U.S., as well as incidents of racism and intolerance abroad. The march will begin in Oakland at 6 p.m. and end at the City County building.
Other marches will be taking place across the country at the same time.
One of the organizers is Michael David Battle, who is the founding director of Garden of Peace Project, a nonprofit that works with the LGBTQIA community. He said they expect 1,000 people to show up.
Battle said communities of color have always been oppressed, but recent events such as the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have pushed these issues into the national spotlight.
“There’s a lot of visibility that’s happening, a lot of outcry of rage and anger but also that outcry of fear, real fear that folks live with every day," Battle said. "So the rallies and the marches are just physical representations of the fear folks are experiencing on a daily basis."
