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United States: Falun Dafa Practitioners Participate in Martin Luther King Day Parade in Houston
ClearHarmony Net
January 26, 2010

On January 18th, 2010, to memorialise civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the MLK Parade Foundation of Houston organised a grand parade in downtown Houston. About 25,000 people participated in the parade. Falun Dafa practitioners, who were taking part for the fourth year, were the only Chinese group in the parade. Read More...

Houston MLK parade routes
Chron.com
January 17, 2010

With the rest of the nation, Houston is marking the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with two parades honoring the civil rights legend on Jan. 18. Read More...

Astros take part in Houston's MLK parade
Astros.com/MLB.com
January 18, 2010

HOUSTON -- Enos Cabell remembers a time when he wasn't allowed to stay in the same hotel with his white teammates when he was a player in the Minor Leagues. Cabell and his fellow African-American teammates would get dropped off a few blocks away at a different hotel before the bus proceeded to the team hotel. Read More...

The Parade Worth Seeing
Business Pros Newspaper
January 19, 2009

Anticipation launches when USMC F-188 Jets soar through the air at 9:59 a.m., followed by multicultural musical groups, co-grand marshals, honorees, dignitaries, celebrities, pageant beauties, fly rydes, and professionally crafted thematic floats from Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas. At the end of the three-hour celebration, everyone attending and participating will see cultural diversity is America's strength and not her weakness and all have more things in common than differences. Read More...