{"id":1293,"date":"2022-02-10T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2022-02-10T03:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T03:33:21","slug":"dr-martin-luther-king-jr-day-of-service-project-kings-dream-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Project: \u2018King\u2019s Dream Unite\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY LAURA MULROONEY, Neighborhood News Bureau
ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 As part of the nationwide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, a substantial crowd gathered as a mural by local artist Ya La\u2019ford was unveiled on the north side of the historic Manhattan Casino in Midtown Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled \u201cKing\u2019s Dream Unite,\u201d La\u2019ford and 25 students from MYcroSchool Pinellas, a tuition-free, dropout recovery, public charter high school, painted the expansive 30\u2019x30\u2019 mural in one week with what was described as a \u201ctremendous amount of paint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cKing\u2019s Dream Unite\u201d is a community mural where La\u2019ford admits the community helped her realize Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThe mural is about unity, this is about how we\u2019re connected, this is about how we can pull and collaborate the community together where I am not only exposing you to the visual but also to the dance and to the music, I am kind of forging these forces together to have something so impactful to the community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The event Monday began with the roar of the Mt. Zion Progressive Community Marching Band. The 13-percussion piece ensemble\u2019s force and presence brought the crowd alive with the beat of their drums and crash of their cymbals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThe pounding of the drums represents our heartbeats coming together,\u201d said La\u2019ford at the end of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY LAURA MULROONEY, Neighborhood News BureauST. PETERSBURG \u2014 As part of the nationwide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, a substantial crowd gathered as a mural by local artist Ya La\u2019ford was unveiled on the north side of the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/laford13.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}