State Rep. Byron Rushing, D-Boston, encouraged the crowd at the city’s Martin Luther King Day celebration today to follow in King’s "radical and revolutionary" footsteps and "be dangerous."

Inside Somerville High School’s auditorium hundreds applauded this year’s honorees — Dan McLaughlin and the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS). McLaughlin was honored for his work in the community with Teen Empowerment and Save Our Somerville, an organization dedicated to strengthening community ties that he founded with his brothers Matthew and Mark.

Jack Hamilton, executive director of CAAS, accepted the award on behalf of the anti-poverty agency. He said Somerville has come a long way on issues of class, race and immigration "but there is more work to be done, particularly around immigration."