North Sac March Spotlights Community Visibility, Progress

By Robert Hansen, Observer Staff Writer DEL PASO HEIGHTS – Hundreds of Sacramentans showed up for the MLK Jr. march in North Sacramento on Monday, leaving from Grant Union High School and covering some four miles on foot through Del Paso Heights. Led by the beat of Grant Union High School’s drumline, hundreds marched in solidarity as MLK’s dream of economic justice and freedom for all has yet to be realized. Hundreds of participants pack Marysville Boulevard during the North Sacramento MLK Jr. march Jan. 15. Russell Stiger II, OBSERVER Fabrizio Sasso, executive director of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, said Del Paso Heights and other North Sacramento communities have been neglected for years by local leaders and he felt that participating in this march rather than other larger marches was most appropriate. “This is the community march. It seems more grounded in community,” Sasso said. Sasso said North Sacramento symbolizes the work of Dr. King. “The attention that this community needs is the same call to action that Dr. King made for social and economic justice,” he said. O’Shay Johnson, director of I Am ManPower Academy, makes a point to consistently come out for the march to see the...