In Boston, volunteers will clean up trash near Northeastern University and hold an educational fair to teach youngsters about King. In Washington, D.C., volunteers plan to renovate the Martin Luther King Homeless Shelter. But the largest citywide service project is planned in Philadelphia, where more than 18,000 volunteers are expected to join in projects from planting trees and painting schools to clearing out abandoned houses and sorting groceries at food banks. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who used the King holiday to call for increased public awareness of the Fair Housing Act to fight housing discrimination. We now have to use it.
Discrimination is still alive and well.
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