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New LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King joins Kingdom Day Parade honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
File: Dancers from the Marching Knights from the Frederick K.C. Price III Christian schools participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.
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The 31st Annual Kingdom Day Parade gets underway this Monday in South Los Angeles. It's one of the biggest celebrations in the nation that honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
There'll be bands, jugglers, equestrians, a 1950s replica bus honoring civil rights leader Rosa Parks and more.
Alan Dove, the parade's president and CEO, said that newly-appointed LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King will also participate in this year's celebration.
"And one of her acts is coming to our parade and marching with the all-city honor band that marches every year in the parade. So she's marching with them. She's young and vibrant and will march the whole two miles with them," Dove said.
The parade starts at 11 a.m. Monday on Martin Luther King Boulevard and Western. It'll head west, wrap around Crenshaw Bouleveard and end on Vernon Avenue.
"It's one of the few parades that you'll find where we reach out and make sure that we have Latinos and blacks, and Chinese and Japanese, Native American Indians working together with LAPD, the Sheriff's Department.," Dove said.
More than 200,000 spectators are expected to show up.
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