Every year the Sigma Mu Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha brings the community together to remember the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate his legacy with their memorial breakfast.
Chapter president Pauline Pope says that it's a perfect time to remind people what Dr. King spoke about and how we can make use of that in our lives.
"Every moment that you breathe, you can make reference to what Dr. King wanted to implicate in your life - one of the things I will never forget is to treat others as you want to be treated," said Pope.
Nearly 500 people were in attendance this year to hear from community leaders as well as this year's speaker, Minister Charlene Free from Designed Destiny Ministries in Columbus.
Free spoke of the theme of Keep Moving Forward - something that she says can be a little difficult given all of the bad or harmful things that we often see in our society today.
"It’s very easy to become negative when you’re in a negative environment or when you’re encountering negative things, hearing negative things in the news - for some people that’s the government shutdown and things like that right now - but it’s a matter of a state of mind, it becomes a conditioning of discipline that we have to develop, and it has to be a daily walk," said Free. "We have to make sure that we keep moving forward by reading the right things, doing the right things, but also practicing being the best person in our hearts."
This is the 24th year that the sorority has held the breakfast for the Lima community.
