'That same fight': DC civil rights march commemorates MLK's dream

The civil rights march comes at the end of a summer rocked by protests over racial injustice.Washington, DC - Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC on Friday to denounce racism, protest against police brutality and commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march when Martin Luther King Jr made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.In his iconic address, King lamented "the unspeakable horrors of police brutality" and envisioned a reality, a future where his children would "one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character".Kimberly Jones, a Black woman from Illinois, was one of hundreds of marchers, lining up to enter the National Mall."Fifty-seven years later we are still fighting that same fight," Jones said, "the fight for equality."I'm angry, I'm frustrated, and I'm disappointed," she said.The march comes at the end of a summer rocked by nationwide protests and racial unrest over police killings of Black people - sparked by the death of George Floyd, who died in late May after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network began planning for the march back in June in the wake of Floyd's death.