Obamas to volunteer at Boys & Girls Club for MLK Day

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/229899-obamas-to-volunteer-at-boys-girls-club-for-mlk-day

January 19, 2015, 09:00 am
Obamas to volunteer at Boys & Girls Club for MLK Day
By Peter Sullivan

The president and first lady will honor Martin Luther King Day by doing community service on Monday, along with a range of other adminstration officials.

The Obamas will participate in a "community service project" at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, the White House said. They will be joined by Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson and Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Wendy Spencer.
Vice President Biden will address the Organization of Minority Women's Martin Luther King breakfast in Wilmington, Del.

Cabinet officials are also fanning out for service projects.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough are volunteering at a high school in Southeast Washington, D.C.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald will serve meals to veterans at Fisher House in Washington.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will volunteer at a homeless shelter in his home state of Iowa.

Joining Habitat for Humanity members, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is helping build homes in Northeast Washington.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will deliver remarks at an event at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington.

[mountaineer]

It's not like they could honor MLK Jr. by refraining from being racists for just a single day, you know.

[DCPatriot]

.....but "I don't do photo-ops!"

[Right_in_Virginia]

Wouldn't this be a wonderful day for Obama to stress the importance of the content of one's character rather than the color of one's skin .....   

[mountaineer]

He spent his time there coloring with the kiddies.

It probably taxed his meagre intellect.

[Oceander]