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Sixth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day Celebration set for this month.

TEXARKANA - The local Bridging The Gaps of Arkansas organization will be sponsoring the Sixth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day Celebration in downtown Texarkana starting at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 17.

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MLK Day 2021 peacemaker award — Moyenda, a warrior peacemaker • The Yellow Springs News

to find voice in a whisper.” Martin Luther King, “Why We Can’t Wait” Last year, Bomani Moyenda turned down an attempt by the Yellow Springs Martin Luther King Day Planning Committee to give him a Peacemaker Award. This week he explained to the community that he did so because he was “unable to reconcile” himself as a peacemaker. After all, past recipients have been “real sweet people,” like Andrée Bognar, Willa Dallas, Isabel Newman and Phyllis Jackson. “[Those are] the kinda people you just want to run up on and hug on,” Moyenda said. “I mean people just don’t do that to me. Some people even cross the street when they see me.”

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Midland's MLK Day celebration goes virtual and features distinguished scholar

Staff Reports MIDLAND  The Midland Women’s Civic Club will host its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on Jan. 18. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the free 1 p.m. event will be held virtually via Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Constitutional law professor and CNN contributor Michael Higginbotham will deliver the keynote address following this year’s theme, “Come Together: Only in Darkness Can You See the Stars.” Higginbotham is a distinguished legal scholar and attorney who has taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 1988, earning his undergrad degree at Brown University and law degrees from both Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He made his first foray into politics as a candidate in Maryland’s special congressional election for the seat vacated by the death of Elijah Cummings.