US marks ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Tens of thousands gathered on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) to mark 50 years since the March on Washington, the civil rights watershed where Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared: “I have a dream.”

Under blue skies, the predominantly—but by no means exclusively—African American crowd swelled around the Reflecting Pool, cheering a procession of speakers who addressed them from the white marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial.