“All men and women and the nonbinary are not created equal,” said Keith Hamilton Cobb. “It’s nonsense. What we are is equally human.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast in Winthrop aims to eliminate stigma of drug use
Dozens attended Monday’s event at St. Francis Xavier Church where several people talked about their personal struggles with substance abuse.
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‘Lift Every Voice’ resonates at Bates College on Martin Luther King Day
Charles Nero, a Bates College professor who specializes in rhetoric, film and screen studies, speaks Monday morning during the Lewiston college’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham) LEWISTON — On Sunday mornings in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Michael Sargent went with his grandparents to the Damascus Missionary Baptist Church. His grandfather, Booker […]
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Celebrating MLK by doing for others
Gould Academy student Sadie Harvey, 15, plays tic-tac-toe with Mahir Mohsin, 5, of Lewiston at the Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services Center on Bartlett Street in Lewiston on Monday. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — High school student Bella Wang sat next to Somali refugee Nurto Abdi on Monday. Wang asked Abdi a series of questions […]
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MLK Jr. Day events in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Many local events are planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services of Lewiston will hold its fourth annual MLK Jr. Day at the MEIRS Youth and Family Center at 256 Bartlett St. and at Longley Elementary School gymnasium, Birch […]
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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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Martin Luther King Jr. legacy misinterpreted, speaker says
Joseph was the keynote speaker at Bates’ MLK Jr. Day: “From Selma to Ferguson: 50 Years of Nonviolent Dissent.” An author, national civil rights commentator and Tufts University history professor, Joseph introduced himself as a native New Yorker. Growing up, his mother was a trade union worker. “My first picket line was in New York […]