50 years after King, marchers gather again in DC

By Suzanne Gamboa

Published August 23, 2013 8:14am ET

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50 years after King, marchers gather again in DC — Rev. Bobby Turner or Columbus, Ohio, places his hand on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, in Washington. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Carolyn Kaster

WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the nation’s first black president, a living symbol of the racial progress Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about, will stand near the spot where King stood 50 years ago and say where he believes this nation should be headed.

Then, like King, President Barack Obama will step away from the hulking Lincoln Memorial, and return to where this nation is now.

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