Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School sixth-grader Malik Washington left Kankakeeon Friday afternoon with 53 others to join a 50th anniversary pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., in remembrance of MLK's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Malik said his own dream today is "to be successful." But he was going to Washington "to march for justice ... for Trayvon ... jobs ... I have a dream." Though just 11, he said he thinks racial relations have improved because "we communicate with each other better."
His grandmother, Shawn Love, of Kankakee, said she was making the trip "to take my grandson to this historic moment and to march on Washington for justice. I want to teach my grandson you have to take the positive way to do things in life."
She planned to meet in Washington with two other grandsons from Maryland and her brother, Kankakee native Angelo Bailey, of D.
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