Harvard University Professor Dr. Erica Chenoweth shared with Bates College students and locals Monday that nonviolent movements over the last 125 years have yielded far greater results than armed conflicts.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Westbrook church celebrates day of service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The event featured a variety of free services, including a pancake breakfast, door prizes, haircuts, hand massages, health and dental screenings, COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, as well as information about financial, educational, nutritional, and legal services available locally. Photos by Press Herald photographer Ben McCanna.
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On MLK weekend, ski trip offers winter fun, community for Black visitors
Lisa Jones, the owner of Black Travel Maine, hopes the tour welcoming an underrepresented, and perhaps tentative, clientele counters a ‘false narrative’ about the Pine Tree State.
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Interfaith council to host community sing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Brunswick Area Interfaith Council will host a community sing at 3 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 20, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St. All are welcome to attend this free event. Older civil rights songs and newer, easy-to-learn tunes will be taught and led by diverse local song […]
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Colby College, members of Waterville community participate in day of service to honor MLK Jr.’s legacy
Volunteers gather at Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons in downtown Waterville to sort and package personal necessities for the homeless.
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MLK Jr. holiday celebrations include acts of service and parades, but some take a political turn
Several speakers at an annual service at the historic Atlanta church where King served as pastor touched on the divisive partisan climate in the United States.
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Vegan Kitchen: Nationally known food justice advocate and vegan chef to speak at Bates
Bryant Terry will give keynote address at the college’s food justice forum on Martin Luther King Day.
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Day of Service at Westbrook church honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
The Social Justice and Peace Committee of St. Anthony of Padua Parish provided free breakfast and other resources on MLK Day.
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Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis
Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.
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Sixty years later, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ resonates in Maine
The letter is being read publicly Monday in an online remembrance of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some of the readers shared their thoughts about participating, and what the letter means.