Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (also known as MLK Blvd or simply King Blvd; originally Santa Barbara Avenue) is an east-west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California.

[1] It stretches 7.1 miles (11.4 km) from Obama Boulevard in Baldwin Village to South Alameda Street in Central-Alameda.

The name change to honor the civil rights leader reflected the large black community in that part of Los Angeles.

[2] The name change effort was headed by Tuskegee Airman and local businessman Celes King III.

[4][5] In a stand-up routine on the television special Bring the Pain, comedian Chris Rock once said, "Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence ... Now what's Martin Luther King?