Thanks for joining us for the news at five. I’m Brian Mays. Ashley is off tonight a group of Austinites remembering a special connection to Doctor Martin Luther King Junior today gave you Dominic Newland. Shares more about the meaning behind this brotherhood. Leadership, brotherhood and being an advocate for
The community are some of the core values of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, incorporated Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was a member of this brotherhood and the Austin alumni chapter commemorated him today. Greg Harrington, President of the chapter, set up the event. Even though it’s super cold this morning that don’t
Stop us, he, along with all other guys who will fight for our freedoms, walking the bus through the bus. Boycott over a year they were walking in this rain, sleet and snow as well. I mean, this is just a small fraction of what we could be doing. The fraternity held a wreath
Laying ceremony in front of MLK Junior statue at UT Austin. They reflected on Doctor King’s legacy and Jeffrey Trevilian with Travis County and an Alpha member spoke. His goal was to make sure that we understood that whatever endeavor we undertook that we always worked as hard as we could,
The opportunity that we have today is based on the sacrifice. That people like Doctor King and our fraternity made yesterday opportunities. This chapter hopes to create more of like voting rights. Something Doctor King fought for Charles. How many you did? I think you did 600 or something. He bridged 667 people to vote
At the last presidential election, so we’re that’s. That’s that’s real. You know what I mean? That’s how we impact a long lasting impact that Doctor Martin Luther King Junior made on this world and in his brotherhood. Inspiring all of us to dream big reporting in Austin. I’m Dominique Newland.
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