And the new Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., will also mark the anniversary -- its very first, since it just opened to the public last summer -- with a candlelight vigil later this evening.
In the social media world, the anniversary of King's assassination is being noted in a different way -- with a dotted line being drawn between King's assassination and the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. "From Martin to Martin: Hoodies up on the Mountaintop," reads the headline at the influential website Global Grind. "Today is Wed, April 4, 2012, the 44th anniv of MLK's death, the 38th day since the murder of #Trayvon Martin -- with no arrest," according to a posting on Twitter.
