To show their ongoing commitment for racial justice, the Eugene-Springfield NAACP celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a drive by rally on Monday.
Texas African American Museum opens at new location, celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Grand Opening Of Texas African American Museum By Erin Wides | January 18, 2021 at 6:35 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 1:05 AM
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas African American Museum in Tyler celebrated Martin Luther King Junior Day with the grand opening of its new location.
The museum is now in a vacant fire station the city of Tyler donated last fall.
Dr. Orenthia Mason was the keynote speaker at today’s event. She said she believes we’ve come a long way since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, but there is still work to be done.
NHC Democratic Party hosts food drive in honor of MLK Day
NHC Democratic Party hosts food drive for MLK Day By Gabrielle Williams | January 18, 2021 at 3:57 PM EST - Updated January 18 at 7:37 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The New Hanover County Democratic Party hosted a drive-thru food drive Monday.
“The Biden campaign invited democrats across the country to do a day of action on Martin Luther King Day,” said Richard Poole, the Chairman of the New Hanover County Democratic Party.
The food and money collected will go to Nourish NC.
“Nourish NC is an organization that helps feed school children who are at risk of hunger,” said Poole. “They do a good job of it and it’s needed now more than ever. With school closed, many kids aren’t getting fed there. Many parents have lost jobs and hunger insecurity reaches 20% of our children in the best of times, and it can only be worse now.”
WATCH: BLM Protesters Shut Down Seattle Freeway
18 Jan 2021
A group of Black Lives Matter protesters took over a Seattle, Washington, freeway Monday. The group shut down traffic on the freeway and forced a police response.
The protest began as a Martin Luther King memorial march on Monday afternoon. At some point, a group broke off and began to occupy the Interstate 5 freeway, Seattle Protest Network tweeted.
We’ve got a couple of events happening right now in Seattle, the MLK march is headed down Yesler and a group has broken off to block Interstate 5 near downtown. pic.twitter.com/QfkXE2dGTv
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one community organization is calling not only for the celebration of his life’s works, but honoring him through a community cleanup. ‘A day on, not a day off.’ That’s the slogan for this community cleanup as individuals gather together to utilize a day set aside for honoring […]