Happy MLK Jr. Day!

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day from your friends at the Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP)!

Props to those who used their time off to volunteer for charitable organizations or community groups.

Some of us weren't so civically minded and used the day to schedule appointments with the cable installer, plumber or furnace cleaner. If we controlled Comcast, we would've scheduled a day of movies that addressed the civil rights struggle. Here are 15 films that we would broadcast:

• In the Heat of the Night (1967): Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Beah Richards. Norman Jewison, director.
• To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Philip Alford, Mary Badham. Robert Mulligan, director.
• Glory (1989): Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick. Edward Zwick, director.
• The Defiant Ones (1958): Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr. Stanley Kramer, director.
• Do the Right Thing (1989): Spike Lee, John Tuturro, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis. Spike Lee, director.
• Sounder (1972): Cecily Tyson. Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal. Martin Ritt, director.
• Pinky (1949): Jeanne Craine, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters. Elia Kazan, director.
• Home of the Brave (1949): Jeff Corey, James Edwards, Lloyd Bridges. Mark Robson, director.
• Boyz n the Hood (1991): Laurence Fishburn, Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube. John Singleton, director.
• Carmen Jones (1954): Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll. Otto Preminger, director.
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967): Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Beah Richards. Stanley Kramer, director.
• The Great White Hope (1970): James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert. Martin Ritt, director.
• Malcolm X (1992): Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo. Spike Lee, director.
• The Jackie Robinson Story (1950): Jackie Robinson, Louise Beavers, William "Bill"Spaulding. Alfred El Green, director.
• One Nation... Divisible (2000). HBO-produced documentary about the 1971 heavyweight fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.