had events Martin Luther King weekend, both honoring the past and looking towards the future.
The mural by artist Jeremy Biggers is 50 feet long and 20 feet high. The unveiling was led by Theresa McShan, Elgin's first Black mayor. The Thomas Family Singers sang a song with the lyrics, "they push me to the bottom of a bowl, and I rise to the top.""He was teaching me how I should behave, how I should act, and what I should do, and it can't get any better than that as far as I'm concerned. I might have thought differently as we were growing up, but I so appreciate it now. To daddy, thank you," she said.
"I am so proud that people are still remembering her year, years, years and years... and just remember, she will never let you use the incorrect grammar," Grace Mosby, Annie Lee Haywood's daughter, said.