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PublishedJanuary 23, 2025
Farmington remembers work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dozens of people from the greater Farmington area attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Day service.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2025
MLK Jr. Day: Bates College students told nonviolence still key to social change
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.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2025
Farmington service honors Martin Luther King Jr.
Bishop James Ruggieri is guest speaker at the Farmington Area Ecumenical Ministry program.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2025
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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PublishedJanuary 10, 2025
Bates College to host events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Speakers, forum and films are planned around the theme Bending Toward Justice.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2025
Farmington ministry to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2025
MLK Day service in Farmington is earlier, at new location
The service will be held on Jan. 20 at St. Joseph Parish [Catholic Church] on Middle Street at 10 a.m. instead of noon because the Presidential Inauguration is also that day.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2024
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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PublishedJanuary 19, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. Day observed in Farmington via Zoom
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2023
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.
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