Crowds gather at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march. (Photo courtesy of Rob Bonta/Twitter)

Thousands of people marched in Oakland on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday to reclaim the spirit of the celebrated civil rights leader, an activist said.

The march was scheduled to start at noon at Frank Ogawa Plaza at 14th Street and Broadway by City Hall. Those that gathered also marched to Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern’s office at 14th Street and Lakeside Drive.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.