The family-friendly event will celebrate King’s life and legacy, inspiration, dedication to diversity and social commitment.
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AP-NORC Poll: 50 years after MLK, civil rights goals unmet
WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Three-quarters of African Americans […]
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Briefly: Religion
Martin Luther King Day service FARMINGTON — Farmington Area Ecumenical Ministry will have its annual Martin Luther King Day service at noon Monday, Jan. 15, at Old South First Congregational Church, 227 Main St. The guest speaker will be Reza Jalali, a writer, educator and Muslim scholar. A refugee from Iran following the Revolution, he is coordinator of the […]
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MLK keynote: Democracy elusive for blacks
LEWISTON — The country’s founding documents that promise freedom to all get messy when examining the history of race, the keynote speaker at Bates College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day said Monday. William Jelani Cobb, who teaches history at the University of Connecticut, is an author and a journalist for The New Yorker. Cobb said […]
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MLK Day highlights at Bates College
Bates College MLK Day highlights This year’s theme: “Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship.” All events are free and open to the public. Some require advance tickets. For a complete list and more information: http://www.bates.edu/mlk/ Sunday, Jan. 17 7-8 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Worship Service: Speaker is the Rev. Dr. Peter Paris, author and retired professor […]
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Lewiston committee recommends big elementary school
LEWISTON — “Build big” is the recommendation for the new elementary school to replace the aging Martel Elementary School. The Lewiston Redistricting Committee on Monday night voted 11-4 in favor of “Option C,” which would be an elementary school of about 950 students, among the largest in Maine. If approved by voters, the school would […]
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Bates College offering MLK events Sunday, Monday
LEWISTON — Peniel Joseph, author, historian and founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Boston’s Tufts University, will be the keynote speaker at Bates College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Joseph’s talk is titled “Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Obama and the Age […]
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Cohen to address Martin Luther King Day event in Portland
PORTLAND (AP) — Former Defense Secretary and U.S. Sen. William Cohen is addressing the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast hosted by the Portland NAACP. Cohen said that 50 years after King delivered his “I have a dream” speech that there’s been progress in racial equality. But he said King’s dream “has not been fully […]
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I Have a Dream
Editor’s note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, originally delivered on Aug. 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The text of that speech is below. * * * I am happy to join with you today in what will […]
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Marching for King’s dream: ‘The task is not done’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. The event was an homage to a generation of […]