Hundreds march in Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in downtown Norfolk

NORFOLK — The recent push by workers in Hampton Roads cities to form labor unions would be strongly backed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a longtime Virginia Beach public utilities employee maintained Monday. “This is what Dr. King fought for,” Terry Green, 64, said at an MLK Day celebration in downtown Norfolk. Green, 64, noted that King strongly backed a sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, that began after two workers were crushed to death when a garbage truck malfunctioned. King even spoke to the striking workers the...