i remember reverend sisal williams leading the charge and march and people show up all over the bay area and we descend on civic center and there would be speeches and performances and music, kids and families and seniors and wheelchairs and everyone came from all over for one purpose, the purpose of reminding ourselves of what dr. king stood for and how he decided that it was important for him to put his life on the line to support black people in this country and to engage in civil disobedience. to engage in using love as a weapon of peace to bring us together. and it was so important to me when i worked in the community when reverend williams decided to retire and we saw a bit of a void. it was what happened? had people are used to coming to san francisco for this purpose and over the years with all the things we tried to do, we tried to continue to be that place when people would take the train and exit and march and go to yerba buena and do other things and when we introduced the dream keeper initiative in san francisco, a commitment to give $60 million a year for black people decid